Re: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report: LUGS April Meeting

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 20:28 +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:

>> 1) Is yum still as slow, as compared to apt-get?
> 
> It has steadily improved in speed over previous versions and there is
> ongoing work on this. 
...
> Since yum connects to the repositories every time...

Not *every* time, yum reconnects only after "metadata_expire" seconds
(man yum.conf for details).

-- Rex