[wellylug] Fedora/RedHat main users/administrators locally

Jonathan Harker jon at jon.geek.nz
Tue Sep 11 09:34:36 NZST 2007


Nic wrote:
> Bizzarely, one of the oft-quoted reasons for using ubuntu/debian is the 
> package manager. While I hate a lot of things about yum, I have had so 
> little success with apt-get that it's yet another reason to stay with 
> Fedora

Trust you to have the oddest hardware in the entire world ever :-)

After a year of purgatory oscillating between Fedora and Suse, I moved 
from being a Mandrake addict after they dropped the ball too many times 
at around the 10.2 mark, and finally gave in to my big brother beating 
me around the head with apt-get and moved to Ubuntu.

The sense of relief of never having had to manually resolve some petty 
stupid RPM dependency since has probably contributed to about 5 points 
off my blood pressure.

If yum could just be tweaked to cache its repo manifests locally as 
apt-get does, so it can search/resolve locally instead of farting about 
upstream every time one invokes yum, they could win a few more folks over.

J




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