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Shlomi Noach: To not yum or to not apt-get?
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posted by Sakila The Librarian on Tue 16 Feb 2010 12:05 UTC
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I’ve written shortly on this before. I like yum; I love apt-get; I prefer not to use them for MySQL installations. I consider a binary tarball to be the best MySQL installation format (source installations being a different case altogether). This article explains why.
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