On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> > What I don't understand: Why do you want to support YUM now and wanted
> > to drop APT? Everybody I know uses APT instead of YUM, because YUM is
> > very slow, when refreshing package lists e.g. Even most Red Hat/
> > Fedora users are fed up with YUM...
>
> Do you believe, what you writeh here? Do YOU measured it, or derives
> your knowledge from others using ancient yum stuff?
>
> Anybody really measured the speed of yum versus apt? I bet, it's approx.
> en par. After that, please compare the nr. of source code lines ;-)
>
> > Consider also, that many people switched to apt with 10.0. Is much
> > faster than YaST. Do you want them to switch to Zen-whatever? Will
> > Zen-Updateer be as fast and easy as APT?
>
> Sure, yum is much faster than YaST/YOU here, too, but flexibility in
> repo mgmt (including self maintained ones), and ease of root strapping
> are even more valuable in my book..
... but again, we are _not_ using YUM (the tool), but our own
implementation to access the same repository format that YUM uses* ;)
Regards
Christoph
*) http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/, with some SUSE-specific
extensions.
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