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On 05/25/2011 11:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I find it odd that you had such major problems so quickly, considering
F15 was just released yesterday. If you were using a F15 pre-release,
well, that could certainly be the explanation of your issues.
As for the package manager being slow, I think it's just a perception
thing. It also depends on your network connection. I've found apt to
be slow at times, too. It all depends what needs to be done, and how
recently you've run it.
I plan to install F15 today once my new hard drive arrives.
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I installed it a couple of weeks ago, but I wound up removing it
yesterday because I was still having some troubles with it. I'll admit
to part of my troubles being a lack of familiarity with the packaging
system—I feel "at home" with dpkg and APT. I can use rpm alright, but
this yum thing is just slow. It seems to take forever for the
"resolving dependencies" step, and I had a problem where it couldn't
resolve dependencies. I've had problems with RPM-based distributions
failing to resolve dependencies as far back as the first Red Hat
(version 5.2 from the 90s) that I had ever installed. My understanding
then was that it was a repository issue of some sort. But the thing is
that I've never had such a problem with APT: it has always resolved
dependencies correctly, but if a dependency is unavailable, it will say
"I cannot install package <i>foo</i> because the package isn't in the
repository" and trying 30 minutes later usually yields success.<br>
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--- Mike<br>
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