Yum slower than apt

[Jeff Allison]

Andrew Konosky wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Only issue being that I don't think redcarpet works with FC2 if you want 
a gui for apt try synaptic.

Jeff