On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 19:22 +0530, elison.niven@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 1) yum should maintain status of installed packages locally. And it > should not need to fetch repository information when user tries > yum info <installed-package> > Reason to have this feature : It seems logical to have information > about an installed package locally. yum -C info <installed-package> from --help: -C, --cacheonly run entirely from system cache, don't update cache > 2) yum is currently downloading repository information separately for > each user. > It can use the same downloaded repository information for all users. > For example : root did yum install <some-package> followed by > Non root user did : yum info <same-package>. > yum will currently fetch repo information again for the non root user. > Reason to have this feature : Save time, bandwidth. Wrong, information are cached in /var/lib/yum. > 4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on > pressing CTRL-C. > Reason to have this feature : Better user experience Do you really want the option to ^c in the middle of an update ? Allowing the user to end-up with a half-updated system ? Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
