On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Hans-Peter Jansen 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...
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..
... but again, we are _not_ using YUM (the tool), but our own implementation to access the same repository format that YUM uses* ;) Regards Christoph *) http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/, with some SUSE-specific extensions.