> The primary difference, from a user's perspective, is that yum updates > it's local headers everytime it runs. The urpmi headers must be updated > manually with 'urpmi.update'. Very generally speaking, if you are doing > one operation, yum is faster; if you are doing several operations, it's > nice to update *once* with urpmi. > > 'yum list' is slower than 'urpmq -y' is 'yum -C list' slower? I'm curious. > yum has "install" and "upgrade" commands, urpmi doesn't differentiate > between the two (which is a behaviour I prefer). so I looked through the urpmi code when I first heard about it - how does it handle obsoletes or mutual obsoleting packages? It doesn't seem to have any special allowance for them. Which seems odd. I couldn't find anything about them in the code but I only scanned through it a few times. Thanks, -sv
