Yum slower than apt

[Andrew Konosky]

Jeff Allison wrote:

> Rodney Gordon II wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:00:31PM +0900, Shawn wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I did a simple
>>> su -c"yum install perl-Date-Calc"
>>> and to resolve dependancies my 933 cpu was at 90+% for over two and 
>>> a half minutes.
>>>
>>> what's up with that
>>>   
>>
>>
>> AFAIK yum is coded in python, and APT is part c and maybe some perl?
>>
>> They're just different programs, and yum lag is to be expected as it
>> is maturing at the moment while APT has been out for a long time.
>>
>> yum has quite a bit of features that APT doesn't and vice versa..
>>
>> As far as a rpm-based distro though I'd stick with yum.
>>
>>  
>>
> Or as an alternative view use apt its mature faster and works
>
> Jeff
>
>
Red Carpet is an awesome GUI based package manager that works a lot 
better than up2date, and it can use both yum and apt rpm repositories. I 
used yum before, and I agree it was slow, especially if you had a lot of 
repositories. Theres a GUI for yum called yumi, but I could never get it 
to work. Red Carpet also has a command line interface if you prefer 
doing things that way.