Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 06:42:38 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:27 +0100, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Now you're comparing apples and oranges. I was talking about apt from
> Extras, using repomd repositories. You're comparing yum with Debian's
> apt with their repos (different number of files and packages; should be
> greater, but I don't know if "main" contains all their packages, or is
> it something like our "Core").
> 
> apt-rpm also has its own repo format which is much faster to download
> and parse than repomd. You should check it out :)
> 
> Lam

I would have conducted an apt-rpm vs yum test, but I'm on x86_64, and
last time I checked, apt has lousy bi-arch support. (Did it improve)
FYI I'm using Debian unstable which has comparable number of packages.

- Gilboa




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