Keeping old versions of packages

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> Using PackageKit and yum on the command line is often painful as we
> have to always download metadata unless it's less than a few hours
> old. Being able to update the metadata once a week would be awesome
> (with the possible exception of security updates) so that we could
> schedule the 20Mb+ metadata update when the user is idle rather than
> waiting for updates.

For me, only once a week is totally unacceptable. I have Apper check for 
updates hourly. If the metadata isn't actually going to be refreshed on 
those hourly runs, that'd really suck!

        Kevin Kofler