Yum sucks. Badly.
Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 30 novembre 1999, 10:00 - Debian - Lien permanent
I recently installed a {@fedora} in my dad's office. Oh, well, I must admit I advocated Debian first (and indeed, we already installed it on another computer, an old world powermac with a somewhat unsupported graphic card). But as my dad knows {@fedora}, I ended in installing one for him so that he can administrate it.
Thought I still prefer Debian, I must admit Fedora looks nice. But all I have to say is that yum is crap. Period. Why would you want to use a tool that updates its cache everytime you want to do even a simple search, stalling for a minute and eating up nearly all memory available? Aren't caches designed to speed up things that don't need fresh data?
Last command I will run is yum install apt ... ah, now Fedora is much better! :-)
Update: APT now tells that I have the same package installed twice (iptables) and indeed, two versions are installed ... who said consistency?