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Re: [opensuse-factory] Package Manager major changes for Beta4 and FACTORY Tree
- From: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:01:09 +0100
- Message-id: <200602090001.09565.hpj@xxxxxxxxx>
Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 20:43 schrieb Marcel Hilzinger:
>
> 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...
Do you believe, what you writeh here? Do YOU measured it, or derives
your knowledge from others using ancient yum stuff?
Anybody really measured the speed of yum versus apt? I bet, it's approx.
en par. After that, please compare the nr. of source code lines ;-)
> Consider also, that many people switched to apt with 10.0. Is much
> faster than YaST. Do you want them to switch to Zen-whatever? Will
> Zen-Updateer be as fast and easy as APT?
Sure, yum is much faster than YaST/YOU here, too, but flexibility in
repo mgmt (including self maintained ones), and ease of root strapping
are even more valuable in my book..
Pete
>
> 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...
Do you believe, what you writeh here? Do YOU measured it, or derives
your knowledge from others using ancient yum stuff?
Anybody really measured the speed of yum versus apt? I bet, it's approx.
en par. After that, please compare the nr. of source code lines ;-)
> Consider also, that many people switched to apt with 10.0. Is much
> faster than YaST. Do you want them to switch to Zen-whatever? Will
> Zen-Updateer be as fast and easy as APT?
Sure, yum is much faster than YaST/YOU here, too, but flexibility in
repo mgmt (including self maintained ones), and ease of root strapping
are even more valuable in my book..
Pete
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