[Ambassadors] Fedora is the new ubuntu
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Apr 14 05:12:05 UTC 2008
Valent Turkovic wrote:
I
> believe that is not because yum is slow but because rpm packages are
> slow to install and upgrade compared to deb ones.
This is correct. RPM allows file based dependencies which means you have
to process lot more metadata. This gives you (or atleast the software
package maintainers) more flexibility at a marginal expense of speed.
Rahul
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