yum - lack of features

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Tue Jun 28 22:43:44 UTC 2005


mnisay wrote:

>
>>
>> True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was 
>> not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true.
>>
>> The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple 
>> packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b 
>> and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three 
>> packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back 
>> again.
>>
>> Paul.
>
> i agree with you paul. mmm, yum is still slow :(
>
    If you really want to see how fast yum is, Download the packages you 
want, install them with rpm -Uvh, go find the dependencies, install with 
rpm -Uvh *, download more dependencies..... Boy, yum is great! :-)

Scott




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