On 9/5/05, Tim Edwards <tim at registriesltd.com.au> wrote: > John Newbigin wrote: > > > I also think yum is too slow. > > I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. After using urpmi at home > on Mandrake with more than 11000 packages in the configured repos I can > say that yum is definately far slower with only ~4000 packages in > configured repos. The whole "Setting up Repos" and "Reading repository > metadata in from local files" is a real drag. > That is true, but in yum2.4 (soon to be available for CentOS4, or you can build/install it yourself) this is greatly improved. Also, yum 2.4 includes the "shell" where yum reads in the information, gets itself ready, and then you can ask it to do a whole bunch of stuff without having to ask for it all in advance on the command line. It's pretty neat. Regards, Greg