On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 08:42 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > Okay, so yum cheats by using rpm, it still will keep things straight. > Certainly didn't mean to cast aspersions of rpm, though I find the > situations where it is preferable for installs few and far between. For those times that you already have the rpm files that you need, using rpm is much quicker. Yum wants to download repo data, and slowly parse your database, before doing anything. I'll use rpm for those cases, and if it bombs out for a dependency, then I'll use yum. NB: Yum's databases are about the repos, not what's installed. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
