[LUAU] apt RPM

[Vince Hoang]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:43:22PM -0700, Eric Hattemer wrote:
> In practice, setting up a separate http/ftp connection for
> each file may add some time, plus other overhead dealing with
> multiple files. But yum could download multiple headers in
> parallel.

Yes, wonderful in theory, but on broadband, a mechanism requiring
many short lived TCP sessions loses because of the overhead.

> RedHat does not seem to be committed to using and supporting
> apt, though. At least not yet.

But fortunately the original Fedora developers still do. The new
shell feature for apt-rpm is nice.

-Vince