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Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by ch0wn on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:59AM (#4453546)
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.
Re:The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubunt... by raverbashing on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:24AM (#4453605)
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