Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[snip]
I don't know that it makes much sense to compare download times since in
general the packages are coming from different servers (and aren't even
the same sizes). What I do notice is that apt-get and friends on Ubuntu
are much faster at resolving dependencies, so it may be something about
Now this is important. I don't really care about download times as that
all happens in
the background. My machine is unlikely to suffer if it doesn't get
upgraded for another
30 minutes or hour and the link is always up. And think of all those
poor windows
users waiting months for updates. :-) But while my attention is on the
updates, I am
spending my time until a decision can be made waiting instead of doing
other things.
Of course, I could just let it all happen in the background but I like
to see what is going
to download before saying yes.
the database implementation. For example if I do a "yum update" and a
minute later do another one, yum takes a while to tell there's nothing
to be done (even when using the cache), whereas apt-get is almost
instantaneous.
[snip]
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