Yum slower than apt

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Wed Aug 11 03:46:45 UTC 2004


Jeff Allison wrote:
> Or as an alternative view use apt its mature faster and works
> 
> Jeff

I have a cron job running apt-get update so when I need to install stuff 
all I have to do is apt-get install <blah>

yum seems to download the headers every time you run it and can take 
aaages even on a very fast connection.


Serge





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