yum is extremely slow

[Jonathan Berry]

On 9/28/05, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc.w at smlintl.com.au> wrote:
> Yum was very slow on the FC3 release however it has been optimised in
> fc4 and that was one of the biggest improvements.  Unfortunately the
> port of apt to fedora is not actively maintained I believe.

I think you may be right.  But the bigger problem is that it does not
support mult-arch.  Which is why the OP noted that it wanted to remove
a bunch of packages.  It cannot deal with i386 and x86_64 packages.

> My suggestion is upgrade to FC4 if you can.

Probably a good suggestion, but are there not updated yum packages for FC3 also?

> Regards
>
> Marc

Jonathan