“What you are asking is a bit like asking me to cast better votes for the US presidency just because I say there are reasons to be less than pleased with the current holder of the job.”

No. I am asking you to put up or shut up. Fedora didnt use apt for well documented reasons.

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

Try programming in the large in the Posix shell some day :)

What you are asking is a bit like asking me to cast better votes for the US presidency just because I say there are reasons to be less than pleased with the current holder of the job.

Even if I became a naturalized citizen, I would still only have one vote. If I stay out of Florida and Ohio, that is.

Much easier to stay in my current country.

If you had followed along you would have seen that yum has been a performance disaster for years and that Seth Vidal has not exactly had a history of welcoming help.

A similar situation in the open source world is the suspend/resume problems with Linux, a lot of which stems from the fact that Linus Torvalds appointed as lieutenant for that area a Czech who almost couldn’t code (yes, really!) when he got the job. A handful of competent people have tried over the years to fix the situation but as long as the Czech’s bad code goes in unhindered and he is the gatekeeper for the good code, things tend to improve rather slowly. Linus himself and Ingo Molnar seems to have given it about a week’s time each in the last year which did improve things but I’m afraid we shall have to wait until Ingo has the time to fix the problem properly.

Yum would likely have improved faster if Seth Vidal had just orphaned it. Or Red Hat would have switched completely to apt (wrapped around rpm instead of dpkg), which would probably have been an even better outcome.

If you are such a better programmer, where are your patches to make yum performance better? It is easy to be a arm chair critic and bash the people doing the work.

Try doing a better job yourself and we shall then speak