Re: Reducing Fedora memory footprint?

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:27 +0100, Leszek Matok wrote: >> Now you're comparing apples and oranges. I was talking about apt from >> Extras, using repomd repositories. You're comparing yum with Debian's >> apt with their repos (different number of files and packages; should be >> greater, but I don't know if "main" contains all their packages, or is >> it something like our "Core"). >> >> apt-rpm also has its own repo format which is much faster to download >> and parse than repomd. You should check it out :) >> >> Lam > > I would have conducted an apt-rpm vs yum test, but I'm on x86_64, and > last time I checked, apt has lousy bi-arch support. (Did it improve) Apt works on x86_64 nowadays but can't handle some cross-arch cases like upgrading from 32bit to 64bit version (eg OOo changed from 32bit to 64bit between fc5 to fc6). Yum's bi-arch support is lightyears ahead anyway :) > FYI I'm using Debian unstable which has comparable number of packages. Debian apt is not comparable at all due to differences in package and repository metadata differences; Debian uses flat text files whereas we have rather heavyweight XML to wrestle with. - Panu -