I've been reading some threads on (and experiencing) yum's slowness. Not sure if its been suggested yet, but could yum be session based? If after all the time-consuming on-disk cache reading (MD Read #### ), yum gave a command prompt, I could yum list, yum info, and finally yum install, all with only one read of repository metadata from local files... This would also make yum play nice with a GUI. Just a suggestion. Thanks for all the hard work developers! ~Greg Bell
