Fedora for tiny devices - exessive dependencies

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Apr 3 03:37:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:29:17AM +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
> There are no such problems with apt/dpkg. I am not sure why yum is such a
> memory hog. I understand it is a cpu hog because unlike apt, it needs to
> recalculate all the dependancies every time it is invoked, but why does it
> requires 256MB to operate?

Where else would it put all the data it's working on?


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