On Sun, 5 May 2013 12:12:01 -0400 Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default?? Sure. It uses a very simple test to determine what is 'fastest', and thats sometimes very wrong. Additionally, it can decide a mirror is 'fastest' and that mirror is out of date. > Without yum-fastestmirror any yum install is excuciatingly slow, > think 256 Kbps or slower. > However if I enable yum-fastestmirror I download from the local > mirror in .AR at 5 Mbps... > > So, again, given that benefits that yum-fastestmirror providers, why > isn't it the default behaviour? (we can have 'yum-slowyum' to revert > back to the traditional behaviour ;-) Feel free to file a RFE bug against yum and ask the maintainers to consider making it default. I suspect however that it doesn't work as well for everyone else as it does for you. kevin
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