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[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not arguing that. However, I was stating that rpm does have two forms of
switches. yum is just as intuitive as apt, if not more. Unlike apt, yum
automatically takes care of caching of repositories and doesn't have
confusing commands for upgrading packages. It doesn't really matter anyway.
CoApp wouldn't be taking the function of rpm or dpkg. That would be msiexec.
CoApp's functionality should be analogous to apt or yum.

2011/7/19 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
>