As a near 100% RHEL/Fedora user I am always wondering if there is anything but a material difference between apt and yum?
From using Ubuntu extensively a few years ago they seem to have near identical feature set?
Apt/dpkg is also a lot more careful about its treatment of configuration files. Debian packages generally ask questions during preconfigure, build a config file, and then run out of the box. But if you already have a config file it will either be left alone or ask you to resolve the merge.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634/what-are-the-pro...
dpkg -S /some/file # tells you what package provides that file
dpkg -L some-package # lists all the files provided by a package
apt-get search <regex> # lists all package names matching <regex>As a dev I still love dpkg-buildpackage way more than rpmbuild.
Atleast some of it is momentum from being first. APT was the main reason I jumped ship from Redhat, but that was before yum.