Is it possible to speed up yum.

[John Poelstra]

Shyam said the following on 06/17/2008 12:10 PM Pacific Time:
> I've been using Fedora since fedora 6 and it is good to see improvements 
> in  yum.  When compared with ubuntu in the packages which is around 
> 25000 and fedora which has around 10000, the time taken to download the 
> package list during the refresh in ubuntu takes lesser time than Fedora. 
> Is it possible to speed this process.?
> 
> -- 
> Shyam
> 

Just out of curiosity... exactly what is the time different downloading 
and installing the same package set on Fedora and Ubuntu?

John