On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > that's not the question > the question is why such traffic wasting *defaults* > I might be way off base here, but in an effort to make DNF go faster compared to YUM, the idea was made to have it pre-fetch metadata ahead of time, so when DNF command is finally run by the user, it skips a costly step... and *seems* faster. Although I believe YUM could do that also with a simple crontab. It is actually a nice feature of DNF or YUM, and I would suggest you embrace. Also, I'm skeptical there is very much network traffic, unless it downloads file lists by default? It's arguable if file lists should be pre-fetched, to do things like determine what package provides something... I would say no, but bandwidth is cheap. So there really is a benefit, and it mostly leads to continuously update metadata. -- -Jon -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
