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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Actually, unlike dpkg, rpm has two forms of switches. You can use the
> expanded switches "--something-or-other" or the single letter combo switches
> "-sOo". Most people prefer to use rpm's single letter combo switches because
> "-sOo" would expand out to "--something --or --other". It is quicker to type
> and less confusing once you get the hang of it. But rpm does have the
> traditional expanded switches like the ones dpkg uses.

dpkg and rpm are (IMO) low-level tools that most users should not be
using. The high-level ones are apt-get and yum. The high-level UI is
the most important one.

Olaf