I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get

[Kristof Vansant]

k but I still don't understand why with yum everything goes slower then with
apt-get.
Has apt-get better mirror support or something?
My friend has a big apt-get sources list and yum list. Apt-get had his
sources list in 2 minutes. Yum was still loading header files after half an
hour.
I can understand his frustration. What's the cause in this big speed
difference?

And yes I have read http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/questions.ptml

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Smoogen" <smoogen at lanl.gov>
To: <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get


> These are the probable reasons:
> A) Seth works at Duke in North Carolina. A proportion of Red Hat works
> at Raleigh in North Carolina.
> B) yum is written in python and so fits with the core Red Hat tool-kit
> of writing all tools in python.
>
> While most conspiraicies would have that Red Hat considers 'apt as the
> tool of the Debil'.. I think the 2 above are much more likely.
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:56, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > What are the key benefits of yum over apt-get cause I got a friend
telling
> > me yum is crap and I should switch to apt-get in stead.
> > Apt-get goes really fast in comparisment to yum.
> > But I tell him there must be a good reason why fedora uses yum, I only
don't
> > know what :).
> >
> > Can someone explain it to me.
> >
> > Thx,
> >
> > Lupus (Kristof Vansant Belgium)
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