On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:50:22AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/31/2009 10:42 AM, James Antill wrote: > > > > > *sigh*, if you want to do some benchmarking of different package > > managers available in Fedora (zypp makes the 4th, if apt is working > > again) then feel free to actually do _a bunch of work_ comparing apples > > to apples. You'll almost certainly be speaking privately with developers > > from all of the tools, to make sure you aren't screwing it up. _Then_ > > post the results somewhere. > > Why would the conversations have to be private? > > > I would be more than happy to help you, with regards to yum, if only > > because it'd be nice to have _some_ third party results somewhere that > > weren't completely insane. > > If, however, you want to just post "yum is slow" feel free to not do so > > on f-d-l. Likewise with quick "benchmarks" like this (which amounts to > > the same thing, IMO). > > You are being needlessly defensive. HWhy not just explain how solv > update and yum update is that different? It is obvious why people would > want to compare. If you think, there is a lack of proper comparison, do > it yourself and post the results or explain the guidelines and ask > people to run the tests and post the results. Either way, performance of > yum is a frequently raised point and it would be useful to get some good > comparisons. James has written about these before: http://illiterat.livejournal.com/5043.html http://illiterat.livejournal.com/5218.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
