Fedora vs. Ubuntu

[Jim Cornette]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> yum will be much faster in FC6 as it has a metadata parser written in C
>> rather than python.
> 
> Is that were the bottleneck is? From what I see, yum spends a lot
> of time trying to connect to countless mirrors, many of which are
> down or which fail the integrity test. That doesn't depend on yum
> itself, I guess.
> 
> I wonder what was the reason why yum wasn't written in C to begin with.
> Anyway, looking forward to the FC6 yum.
> 
> 
up2date was written in python and the thought was by the developer that 
python would be kept in working order because of the other redhat (at 
the time of decision to use python) programs that use python.

I'm looking forward to FC6 and the compilation in C, if that is the case 
for yum. Hopefully the speed is better.

Jim

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