Yum slower than apt

Jeff Allison jeff.allison at allygray.2y.net
Tue Aug 10 14:04:09 UTC 2004


Rodney Gordon II wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:00:31PM +0900, Shawn wrote:
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>>I did a simple
>> su -c"yum install perl-Date-Calc"
>>and to resolve dependancies my 933 cpu was at 90+% for over two and a half 
>>minutes.
>>
>>what's up with that
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>AFAIK yum is coded in python, and APT is part c and maybe some perl?
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>They're just different programs, and yum lag is to be expected as it
>is maturing at the moment while APT has been out for a long time.
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>yum has quite a bit of features that APT doesn't and vice versa..
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>As far as a rpm-based distro though I'd stick with yum.
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Or as an alternative view use apt its mature faster and works

Jeff





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