billg said: > Yum was very, very slow. If I didn't know better, as a new user might > not, I would've assumed that it had crashed. Yum also began to downoad > headers for several packages other than the paclage I had requested. I > terminated yum before it completed. if you want to use yum, let me recommend that you change your repos to a fedora mirror, you'll get better results. the mirrors are listed on the fedora.redhat.com site, and the config is in /etc/yum.conf > 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? mirror load and dumb luck. hwen you updated there probably weren't many people on the server, when you yum'd, then it was probably slammed. > 2) Why offer more than one way update a Fedora system? why offer kde and gnome? why allow the user to choose their browser? because the choices are out there, because they work well when configured properly =] if you're looking for a gui, go to fedora.us (the official extras repo) and install apt/synaptic. when you install apt, run apt-get mirror-select go through the selections, and then use synaptic from the menus (system settings -> more system settings) > I'd prefer to see a single tool used for updating as well as for > installing new packages. Presumably, the latter functionality could be > added to up2date. (Perhaps an option to "List New Available Official > Packages"). The Xandros updater provides that functionality, I believe. > I'd also recommend that up2date display, by default, a short synopsis of > the need and purpose of each proposed update. And, of curse, a user > should never, ever, need to edit a source list to get the update tool to > work. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )+ +( linux "just works" : www.linuxadvocate.net )+ -------------------------------------------------- Understatement of the century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" - Linus Torvalds, August 1991 --------------------------------------------------
