On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 16:22 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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 On F8: [root@localhost ~]# time rpm -q gimp gimp-2.4.4-1.fc8 real 0m0.102s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.008s [root@localhost ~]# time yum -C list installed gimp Installed Packages gimp.i386 2:2.4.4-1.fc8 installed real 0m3.450s user 0m2.829s sys 0m0.394s As you can see, it's about the same on my machine. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
