yum downloading its indexes all the time is a major PITA

[Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Isn' t there a way to config yum to only download its repo indexes only once a dar and not every single bloody time I invoke yum for something else other than install? (ie I call Yum whatprovides something and get

$ yum whatprovides vlc
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
[Useless, unneeded, unwanted downloading follows...]
Dropbox                                                  |  951 B     00:00     
Dropbox/primary                                          | 1.5 kB     00:00     
fedora/metalink                                          |  40 kB     00:00     
fedora                                                   | 4.2 kB     00:00     
fedora/primary_db                                        |  12 MB     00:47     
fedora/group_gz                                          | 434 kB     00:03     
google-chrome                                            |  951 B     00:00     
google-chrome/primary                                    | 1.5 kB     00:00     
google-earth                                             |  951 B     00:00     
google-earth/primary                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00     
livna                                                    | 3.6 kB     00:00     
livna/primary_db                                         | 3.4 kB     00:00     
livna/group_gz                                           |  464 B     00:00     
rpmfusion-free                                           | 3.3 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free/primary_db                                | 335 kB     00:02     
rpmfusion-free/group_gz                                  | 1.6 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                        | 9.6 kB     00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz                          | 1.6 kB     00:00     
updates/metalink                                         |  45 kB     00:00     
updates                                                  | 4.5 kB     00:00     
updates/primary_db                                       | 1.4 MB     00:05     
updates/group_gz                                         | 434 kB     00:01     
Dropbox                                                                     4/4
google-chrome                                                               3/3
google-earth                                                                1/1
vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,
                      : player and server
Repo        : rpmfusion-free



vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,
                      : player and server
Repo        : @rpmfusion-free-updates-testing

FC
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