On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 14:56 -0400, John Poelstra wrote: > Antonio Olivares said the following on 06/17/2008 01:37 PM Pacific Time: > > Anyway, the behavior is hard to determine why things are the way they are. The size of the packages matters, also the servers from where the packages are fetched is also important, which plugins are present in yum for instance, fastest mirror, presto, etc. A one-on-one comparison does not say much since other factors kick into the equation. > > > > Right. I was just curious as I've seen this said a lot, but little data > to back up the assertion except that "apt-get/ubuntu is faster". I think > someone in Fedora pointed out that in some comparisons the difference > was only a few seconds which hardly seemed worth getting excited about. It matters if you want to check if an updated package is available and are staring at the screen waiting for an answer. "A watched pot never boils". poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
