On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > huyfuo wrote: >> 2011/7/25 Ljubomir Ljubojevic <off...@plnet.rs>: >> >>> But WHY do you use apt on OS that by default uses yum? >>> >> There is no speacial reason. But yum is slow. > > How have you reached that conclusion? Please read this mail: > http://osdir.com/ml/centos-devel/2011-07/msg00200.html > It shows that yum with 18.300 packages will complete dependency check in > max 1m 9sec (without cache). Have you performed quality test apt vs yum?
Ljubomir, The discussion is quite moot nowadays, but as a long-time user of both apt and yum, apt still beats the crap out of yum (both in memory usage, speed and cpu usage), however it is no longer maintained and therefor a dead-end. One of the other reasons to be using apt, was that yum only started to be shipped with RHEL5, and most have (had) RHEL2, RHEL3 and RHEL4 systems around. up2date is something to be avoided, where possible... -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.repoforge.org http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
