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ch0wn on Aug 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house deskto...

Absolutely. Package managers are mostly IO-bound so there is no reason why a Python-based PM should be substantially slower than a C implementation.

raverbashing on Aug 30, 2012 [–]

Except when they are calculating dependencies

But I agree with the yum sentiment, it really looks bad when compared to other solutions that existed: urpmi, apt-rpm, etc

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