What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Robert Scheck wrote:
> 
>>> Of course I understand, that dbus is nice and so on, but I'm not seeing
>>> how it is really useful. Again, the push happens about every 24 hours and
>>> the cache of the downloaded files by yum expires after maybe one hour, if
>>> I am not wrong here. Why do we generate such unnecessary load and traffic?
>> Because you do not know *when* the update push happens. And there are
>> third-party repos which sometimes push several updates a day.
> 
> maybe true, but do users really need to be so up-to-date? Mirrors also need
> time to synchronize, as we learned in this thread, right? I'm still lacking
> a good reason why we're checking each yum interaction for updated metadata
> as far as I can see.

Being far out-of-date doesn't help avoid doing your update in the middle 
of a push with mirrors out of sync, or are you proposing some sort of 
fixed schedule with update blackouts while the mirrors catch up?

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   Les Mikesell
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