Why is yum not liked by some?

[tim at registriesltd.com.au (Tim Edwards)]

John Newbigin wrote:

> I also think yum is too slow.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. After using urpmi at home 
on Mandrake with more than 11000 packages in the configured repos I can 
say that yum is definately far slower with only ~4000 packages in 
configured repos. The whole "Setting up Repos" and "Reading repository 
metadata in from local files" is a real drag.

-- 
Tim Edwards