• tal@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    Rpm is really more analogous to dpkg. Does the local work, doesn’t talk to repositories.

    Apt to…not yum anymore. checks Dnf.

    I’m not sure which one would properly call a “package manager”, the apt/dnf role or the rpm/dpkg role.

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      1 hour ago

      rpm/dpkg is the package format. apt/dnf/zypper is the system that downloads, unarchives, and moves files into place.

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        53 minutes ago

        rpm and dpkg are also programs that are used for a number of local operations.

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          13 minutes ago

          True. There’s… a lot to unpack with this.

          Package Management is weird.