On 11/28/2011 10:55 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
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> Is yum considered to be a GUI application? Anyway, an aspect of
> yum which may be helpful to look at is that when used with presto, it
> never tells you how much it is going to really download. What I mean is
> that it says Total download size: 11
>
> apt seems faster than yum but it seems that it is colored by the fact
> that a typical Fedora/RHEL/CentOS install will have a lot more packages
> installed than Debian/Ubuntu and it's perceptual, not that I have ever
> timed it. I do have a kitchen sink Ubuntu box at my work and it has a
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 21:54 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> I happened upon pacman on Arch linux - and it appeared to be
> substantially faster than yum. Now this was casual "visual impact only"
> - no formal tests using similar packages and same computer etc - but it
> was very much noticeably fas
I happened upon pacman on Arch linux - and it appeared to be
substantially faster than yum. Now this was casual "visual impact only"
- no formal tests using similar packages and same computer etc - but it
was very much noticeably faster.
Installs of even large packages seemed to fly compared
