Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 01:42, Hong-Yee Seah wrote:

> Yum is a recent thing,IIRC, starting FC1. I admit I have not tried it. 
> Kind of interesting that it is actually from Yellowdog.

I think it existed in RH8 days actually (my memory is a bit hazy), and
it did not come from Yellow Dog. It in fact came from Seth Vidal, a dude
at Duke University, and a Fedora person -
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

It got its necessary love when FC1 came along, and up2date speaks w/yum
repositories too

Its true, RPM was a mess without a package management tool back in the
7.x days and even before. Dependency hell was well, hell. Even apt-rpm
was only around since RH8 days iirc

Yum has also gotten a lot faster, with repodata. So FC3 yum will be
blazingly fast (my tests show around 4x speed improvement on the same
machine)
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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