On 28 February 2010 18:39, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't think of any reason why you'd need, or want, to have > updates-testing checks block any other GUI operation. To show the list of newest updates to the user... >> If we could speed up the dep checking and downloading, I agree it >> would be better for usability, and the exposure of updates-testing >> generally. > > Dep. checking is pretty fast, upT¹ is roughly 10 seconds for 300 > packages here and lsuT is like 2.5 seconds. I guess maybe that's worth > caring about if you block everything else behind it, but... Sure, and 2.5 seconds _extra_ is a long time. > As to the downloads, if you know of a way to speed up a users internet > connection ... feel free to spread your wisdom. Here's three: * Download from multiple mirrors simultaneously * Do the transaction in parallel so that you're downloading the next depsolved set of updates as you're installing the first * Have better control of the cache format so you don't need to keep three files in sync just to update the primary and then depsolve. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
