YUM with elementary meta-data versioning (revision, time, tag) -- WAS: YUM v. APT v. SmartPM

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 07:30 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>> I think YUM's speed is over-demonized.  At most, I wish there was an
>> option to discretely decide when to sync with the repositories, like
>> in Apt.  And there are other considerations too.
> 
> Okay, let's switch gears _away_ from the "home consumer" aspects and
> start looking at Fedora's _real_ value at enterprises.  Like it or not,
> Fedora is the staple of not only RHEL, but it's core technologies are
> what enterprises deploy.
> 
> - What enterprises would like out of YUM (at least my experience)

I would appreciate if you can take the time to post to yum lists about 
this. I am not sure anyone working on Yum is subscribed and watching 
these threads.

Rahul