[ale] Fedora 15

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 05/25/2011 11:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.
>    
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 /foo/ because the package isn't in the 
repository" and trying 30 minutes later usually yields success.

     --- Mike
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