Hiisi <very-cool@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I wouldn't dare to suggest using 'yum clean all' on this list. It's > nearly the same big mistake as posting in html. ;-) While I agree that "yum clean all" is a pretty big hammer, I have to wonder why all the excitement every time it is suggested. It isn't like yum itself cares all that much about wasted bandwidth. Much, much more bandwidth gets wasted with duplicate downloads from folks that have multiple Fedora machines. If bandwidth really mattered all that much, you could bet that yum would sprout a config file option that lets one list all the hostnames of the other local fedora systems to check to see if any of them had copies of the RPM in their caches. Yes, I know I can set up a local yum/rpm repository, but that has its own problems. One ends up downloading all the rpms, even though one only uses maybe 5% or them. Yes, one can also NFS export the yum cache and symlink and share it across hosts, but that is a bit of work to set up and get going. Most people just aren't going to go through that, especially when the end result is a much more brittle yum installation. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
