On 9/28/05, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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