Is it possible to speed up yum.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 19:39 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> 
>> This topic is neverending story.
>> Yes yum is feeling slower compare to apt but just try to compare its 
>> capabilities.
> 
> In what way is yum/rpm superior to apt-get/dpkg? I'm not being
> polemical, this is a genuine question.

There are differences. RPM has multi-lib support, file based 
dependencies, triggers etc while dpkg has soft dependencies and so on. 
Note that apt-rpm already exists in the Fedora repository.

Rahul