Why doesn WhiteBox include support for apt repositories?
Short answer: See question #3 about why any other package isn’t included. Long Answer: Having apt and yum would be redundant for the intended purpose, which is to be a transport for up2date. Yes you CAN run yum without up2date but that is just a nice bonus. You can easilly add in a copy of apt from one of the sources mentioned above and have it preconfigured to access that site’s repository. You can even configure up2date to use apt as a transport at which point up2date is supposed to be smart enough to solve dependencies across transports, i.e. it will grab a core whitebox package via yum to satisfy a dependency generated by installing a package from an apt repo. What you can’t do is point apt at the WhiteBox mirrors and do: apt-get update apt-get upgrade This is because the whitebox mirrors lack the additional info apt needs. Bluntly, if you are looking for an pure apt based distribution you are probably looking in the wrong place. Try www.debian.org or www.conectiva.com instead. Or
