[nzlug] CentOS and the "joys" of rpm based systems

[Cliff Pratt]

Daniel Lawson wrote:
> 
>> works, but I really wouldn't bother. A package manager is a package 
>> manager after all, and I've had just as many issues with apt as with 
>> yum ( well, except for that python overflow thing, but that was a long 
>> time ago ) over the years. I think you'll find CentOS 5.1 has been 
>> available since before christmas if that's of any use to you.
>>   
> 
> I've always found yum's package resolution tediously slow.
 >
That I don't understand. Admittedly yum uses RedHat's repositories by 
default and they are slow, I haven't noticed that they are particularly 
slow.

Cheers,

Cliff