Re: yum - package discovery

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 4:59 PM, <nbirchler@charter.net>  
<nbirchler@charter.net> wrote:

> if you don't want to use yum, you can always ask google.
> a search for "fedora rpm uudecode" gives it to you in the third  
> link. probably faster than yum searching its database (except maybe  
> on a dual processor dual core opteron).
>

Of course that depends on context.  In this case with one file, sure,  
google will probably be faster.  With multiple files, I would imagine  
yum is faster, especially if I automate the search with a bash or  
perl wrapper.

But then I'm not that familiar with yum, so I could be wrong.  Does  
yum work similar to apt in that it has a list of repositories that it  
queries?

Regards,
- Robert
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