On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:43:22PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote: > In practice, setting up a separate http/ftp connection for > each file may add some time, plus other overhead dealing with > multiple files. But yum could download multiple headers in > parallel.
Yes, wonderful in theory, but on broadband, a mechanism requiring many short lived TCP sessions loses because of the overhead. > RedHat does not seem to be committed to using and supporting > apt, though. At least not yet. But fortunately the original Fedora developers still do. The new shell feature for apt-rpm is nice. -Vince
