On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > The main reason would be that for most of the commands, yum decides for > itself each time whether or not it will spend several minutes chatting > with repositories and mucking around the rpm database before getting > back to the human that may have not typed the right question the first > time. Meanwhile the human will get bored and read email lists to fill > his time. Feel free to back up the above with some numbers, please. Yum shouldn't spend anytime 'mucking around the rpm database'. If you can find a place where it is please let us know in a bug report. If you want to run yum w/o having it access remote locations then do what james said, set your metadata expiration to -1 so it never expires and use that. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
