> > > > Seth, took me a bit to find this post again but I wanted to let you know > that the newest yum is in fact much faster even the 'yum search' which > used to be considerably slower than apt. Thanks! :) As was pointed out to me - I need to mark down today on my calendar: June 14th - someone on fedora-devel-list said something positive about yum. :) thanks, -sv