Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote:

> 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)

Apt works on x86_64 nowadays but can't handle some cross-arch cases 
like upgrading from 32bit to 64bit version (eg OOo changed from 32bit to 
64bit between fc5 to fc6). Yum's bi-arch support is lightyears ahead 
anyway :)

> FYI I'm using Debian unstable which has comparable number of packages.

Debian apt is not comparable at all due to differences in package and 
repository metadata differences; Debian uses flat text files whereas we 
have rather heavyweight XML to wrestle with.

 	- Panu -