I was wondering why fedora has choosen yum over apt-get
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Feb 10 21:41:12 UTC 2004
On Feb 10, 2004, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> Far fewer files are downloaded for headers, meaning more efficient
> data compression and faster header downloading.
Unless I misunderstand, the one gotcha is the common case of a small
changes in a large repositories requiring the entire set of (single
file) header information to be downloaded. This *could* become a
bandwidth problem, not only for people in the wrong ends of small
pipes, but also for servers, since rhn-applet would probably keep on
fetching it over and over (at least every time it changes).
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