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

[seth vidal]

> As opposed to fetching the entire directory listing to see if new
> files have appeared or changed?  It is much faster to determine if a
> single, known file name, has changed.

Not true - it doesn't get a dir listing.


yum currently uses the header.info file to determine which headers are
new.

a dir listing is:
1. expensive
2. unreliable on webservers
3. frequently unavailable.

-sv