Re: Announcing start of DNF 5 development

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 23:56 +0000, Tom Seewald wrote:
> Yep, I just ran "dnf info kernel" and then right after that "dnf
> changelog kernel", in both cases dnf spent over 20 seconds syncing. 
> I haven't seen other package managers require this much network
> traffic, and I wonder if a lot of it could be avoided.

If you only want to query *locally installed* packages, you can just
use rpm:

rpm -qi kernel
rpm -q --changelog kernel

if you use DNF, it will get the info for packages that are in the
repositories but not locally installed, as well. changelogs are kept
and retrieved separately, I believe, as they aren't needed for any
other operations, so that's why you see remote trips on both commands,
I think.