Products · Product
yum
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2009–2016), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Re-fetches server lists on every command, so it is very slowUnreviewed
20092026- Upgrading 20 packages with yum took around 40 minutes, lagging badly2016-04-04
- Yum is very slow and re-fetches server lists on every command2015-05-18
- Yum is absurdly slow and its interface is goofy, needing repoquery2014-03-27
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Upgrading 20 packages with yum took around 40 minutes, lagging badly2016-04-04
- Yum is very slow and re-fetches server lists on every command2015-05-18
- Installing packages needs third-party repos and hits PHP conflicts, which is hard to resolve2014-07-07
- Yum is absurdly slow and its interface is goofy, needing repoquery2014-03-27
- Package conflicts and missing packages make yum hard to use compared to apt2013-12-03
- Output is hard to read, spewing dense text the user can't parse2013-08-16
- Constant hunting for broken package dependencies and installing software repeatedly is painful2011-05-19