Re: Thoughts and Questions On Yum, Up2Date. Etc.

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• From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:16:33 -0400 (EDT)
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billg said:
> 1)  Is yum's unresponsiveness due to mirror load? If so, why wasn't
> up2date slow?  Just dumb luck?  Do they not look at the same
> repositories?

Up2date has code to pick a random mirror.  Yum does not.

> 2)  Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system?

Why not?  yum has features up2date doesn't and up2date has features yum
doesn't.

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