> Ok, so this an accounting issue but the fact that you can charge time > elsewhere does not mean very much from POV of a yum _user_. One > starts yum and waits for it to finish. That detail that really some > subprocess is busy instead does not make an overall wait shorter. > If yum itself is responsible only for a small fraction of that time > then optimizing it has a negligible overall on its practical use. So I should go see if I can make the transaction test faster in rpm, too. Well I'm glad that in addition to working on my own program I have to go hunt down any issues I have in every other library, too. Sounds like fun. wait wait no, no it doesn't. :) -sv