Jeff Sheltren wrote: >Out of curiosity, what package were you installing, how many >dependencies did it need to resolve, and how much memory did each >(up2date/yum) use? > > | install xfce | remove xfce ---------+---------------+------------- yum | 74.2M | 18.9M up2date | 34.0M | 12.7M It's only two examples. Realy you can see difference by eye. Yes I prefer to use yum cause it's much more usefull. I just try to find a way to solve this question.