Re: DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

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On Jun 21, 2014 12:26 PM, "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi
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> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>> what you or i prefer don't matter
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> Sure it does.  Otherwise you would not insist that your perspective is the only right one and everyone else who has a different perspective is always "wrong" in any such discussion.
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>> the ordinary user never uses yum/dnf at all and most of them just
>> react on the "new updates are available" in the GUI
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> I have been dealing with user questions in Fedora for around 10 years now and I would disagree with that assertion.  We never really managed to attract a large crowd of regular consumers to Fedora who preferred the graphical interfaces for updates and the interfaces have been pretty poor despite several revisions (up2date, pup, gpk-update etc).  It might be change with better software managers now but I suspect that most of our "regular" users are in fact using the command line for updates at this point.
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> Rahul

Now that the gui updater *requires* a reboot, I don't even use the gui when I get the system notification (which I used to do unless I needed to do something special).

Langdon
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