On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Thomas Hartwig wrote:
1. Yum is really slow in comparison to apt.
Then use apt.
You might often heard this and the reasons might be quite complex,
but for an end user like me it is really annoying how yum is
fetching everything again upon restart.
/etc/yum.conf:
metadata_expire=604800
It'll only reload your cache once a week.
Also, 3.0.1 can make use of a cache-loader written in C so it's much
faster to load the cache. As far as fetching the RPM metadata in the
first place, well, that's between you and the repository.
2. Yum leaks major features:
- support of source repositories
See yum-utils.
- support of version selection
Explain.
I know these ones have discussed already some times, but what me
makes angry are the answers of the developers (very simplified):
- This feature would break the system of the user.
- Why should a user want to use this, since he has not written linux.
References?
I want to cut here because I think this makes clear my major
points. I'm sorry if I was to rude and I thank for all volunteers
working on yum and have made linux to what it is today. But I had
to let it go...
You get what you pay for. The yum source is here in case you'd like
to contribute:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/cvs.ptml
j.
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