On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Jeff Spaleta 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. > > > > > > yum -C list installed gimp > > It still wastes a lot of time, although I'm looking at fc6 - maybe it is > better on newer versions: > > # time rpm -q gimp > gimp-2.2.17-1.fc6 > real 0m0.129s > > [root@moola ~]# time yum -C list installed gimp > Loading "downloadonly" plugin > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Installed Packages > gimp.i386 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 installed > real 0m3.566s > > And it gets worse on machines with more repos installed. yum latest on fc6 is over 15 releases of yum ago. And that's been over a year. Please don't make comments about things from that long ago. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
