Re: yum - lack of features

[Scott Talbot <talbotscott cox net>]

mnisay wrote:

> > True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was 
> > not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true.
> >
> > The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple 
> > packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b 
> > and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three 
> > packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back 
> > again.
> >
> > Paul.
>
> i agree with you paul. mmm, yum is still slow :(
   If you really want to see how fast yum is, Download the packages you 
want, install them with rpm -Uvh, go find the dependencies, install with 
rpm -Uvh *, download more dependencies..... Boy, yum is great! :-)

Scott