[SLL] Say, does CentOS have an accessible /etc/apt/sources.list like thing I can actually look at?

Xeno Campanoli xcampanoli at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 19:40:11 PST 2008


Jay Scherrer wrote:
> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>> I've been cruising the documentation, but it seems to hide any such 
>> information with great prowess.
>>
>> xc
> You might be able to get a copy from freshrpms.net, or build the source. 
> However; CentOS is automatically linked with yum repositories. The 
> newest CentOS 5,1 is built around RHEL 4 or 5 I presume. Wouldn't it be 
> great if you could yum install "apt-get" or vice versa?
> 
Again, it's pretty amazing that the RedHat world makes things so 
incredibly difficult, especially when they are so incredibly easy in the 
Debian world.  I really don't get it.  It's like RedHat has someone by 
the balls and they want to get away with making it as costly to use as 
possible.

xc


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