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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Manager major changes for Beta4 and FACTORY Tree
- From: Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:45:38 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602082143360.21526@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
> What I don't understand: Why do you want to support YUM now and wanted
> to drop APT? Everybody I know uses APT instead of YUM, because YUM is
> very slow, when refreshing package lists e.g. Even most Red Hat/ Fedora
> users are fed up with YUM...
We are not using YUM -- we are using the metadata format that YUM uses as
well. Calling those installation repors "YUM sources" might be a bit
misleading. Actually they should be called "RPM Metadata" or RepoMD or
something like that...
Regards
Christoph
> What I don't understand: Why do you want to support YUM now and wanted
> to drop APT? Everybody I know uses APT instead of YUM, because YUM is
> very slow, when refreshing package lists e.g. Even most Red Hat/ Fedora
> users are fed up with YUM...
We are not using YUM -- we are using the metadata format that YUM uses as
well. Calling those installation repors "YUM sources" might be a bit
misleading. Actually they should be called "RPM Metadata" or RepoMD or
something like that...
Regards
Christoph
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