why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:50:26PM -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> It takes *nearly a minute* to do that!  I'm on a 2GHz machine.
> If it's not hitting the net, what's it doing, raytracing?

Demonstrating the myth that interpreted languages are fast enough.

It is actually doing a fair bit - its computing the dependancies, checking it
won't clash, checking the files fit etc