On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:57 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 11:14 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote: > >> I am looking at the horribly slow installation when packages are > >> specified explicitly (look for an old e-mail from Jeffrey Law: > >> Interesting anaconda/yum performance issue). > > > > Jeff then put together a patch for yum based on where I pointed him that > > should have gotten this back to where it "should" be. And that's been > > in for a while. > > Where can I find/test that patch? Any relevant BZ? > Which version of anaconda/yum? yum patch only and it was in the thread you referenced :) And should have gone in around the same time, whatever version of yum that makes things > I am not quite sure what are the differences but it seems strange. > Why do we have 2 different function/code paths that essentially do the > same thing, install requested packages? Old API vs new API. But removing the old would break old callers, which we don't really like doing. Jeremy