why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Steven Garrity]

Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> Is there any kind of reasonable GUI for yum yet?  A lot of these
> problems wouldn't matter if the "session" was longer, and it was only
> doing all of this parsing once at startup, letting you do multiple
> queries and installs without it needing to start over from scratch each
> time.  I thought Ximian Red Carpet was fantastic and I really miss it.

The fedoranews.org server where it is hosted is down as I write this, 
but there is GYUM - I think it's new and I haven't tried it yet, so I 
can't vouch it:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29014

Steven Garrity