When using Red Hat based distros like Rocky, CentOS, or Fedora one of the main complaints is that the package manager, “dnf” is slow. I would actually agree with that opinion. The default dnf package manager without any configuration is quite a bit slower than many other package managers like apt, pacman, or nix. However, there are a few ways that you can make it a lot faster. I am going to showcase two ways, the manual way by editing the dnf config file, or by downloading and running a script called ‘Dnf-Fast”.
  • @joojmachine@lemmy.ml
    4•2 years ago

    Good one, the only thing I wouldn’t recommend for everyone would be the fastestmirror option as it just takes in consideration response time and in some cases (mine included) it was significantly slower in real use. That said DNF-Faster seems great, will try it out.

  • Ephera
    2•2 years ago

    Hmm, interesting. I always figured that was a symptom of it being written in Python.

    I guess, the most computationally intensive task, dependency resolution, is handed over to a C library anyways…