[SATLUG] Ubuntu

[Patrick W. Barnes]

Sounds like a lot of misunderstanding to me.  yum is actually pretty quick at 
basic operations.  Current versions use caching to store metadata.  The first 
time you use yum, it will have to build its cache, and operations that 
require more information will have to retrieve more data for the cache, but, 
once that's done, working from that cached data is quick.  Also, 'yum search' 
is not the best way to find out if a package is available.  That will search 
for files within packages, which makes it great if you're looking for a 
particular file but don't know what package it is in.  It takes longer 
because it has to retrieve that file inventory from the repository.  If you 
just want to see what's available in the repository, use 'yum list' instead.  
You can also tell yum to avoid fetching new metadata with the '-C' flag.  yum 
did start out with a huge speed disadvantage, but it has grown beyond that 
and continues to advance at an incredible rate.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum

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