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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> AFAICT there is no best number. If someone would like to play with it and 
>> tell us what is more sensible it is utterly trivial to set.
>> 
>> I don't think 1day is a good number - it'll drive some folks insane.
>
> Why? We shouldn't be pushing out updates more than once per day. Right?
>
>> it doesn't hit the network on every operation. And the cache timeout is 
>> documented in the man page.
>
> Yes, it doesn't hit the network on every operation but that's the perception. 
> For operations, it does, it isn't always obvious why.  Why does remove hit 
> the network for example? I would like to see such things documented 
> somewhere. It is certainly a FAQ. If we had a reference to point out to 
> users, it would help a lot. Thanks.


Faq:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq#Q.17:WhydoesyumalwaysseemtoupdatethemetadataonEVERYrun


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