[nzlug] yum search format

[Martin Bähr]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:51:54PM +1300, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> However, it's still much slower in my experience than the equivalent
> aptitude call.  

did you try that with the same hardware and systemload?

> It's as though aptitude uses an indexed database and
> yum searches without an index EVERY time.

i don't think it has an indexed database. perhaps the data source
is more compact. generally though i don't find apt-cache search rather
slow. (but i have no idea at all how yum comparws to that)

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