Am 19.06.2014 19:57, schrieb Jon: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> > wrote: >> that's not the question >> the question is why such traffic wasting *defaults* >> > > I might be way off base here, but in an effort to make DNF go faster > compared to YUM, the idea was made to have it pre-fetch metadata ahead > of time, so when DNF command is finally run by the user, it skips a > costly step... and *seems* faster. Although I believe YUM could do > that also with a simple crontab. It is actually a nice feature of DNF > or YUM, and I would suggest you embrace. Also, I'm skeptical there is > very much network traffic, unless it downloads file lists by default? > It's arguable if file lists should be pre-fetched, to do things like > determine what package provides something... I would say no, but > bandwidth is cheap. So there really is a benefit, and it mostly leads > to continuously update metadata
if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie if i am really interested in updates now i do "yum clean metadata && yum upgrade" for many years simply because you don't know how accurat you metadata are and *no* traffic is not cheap everywhere, by far not
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