yum-presto not on by default

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 24 20:34:20 UTC 2009


On 09/25/2009 01:59 AM, Andre Robatino wrote:

> The inconvenience for a high-bandwidth user of having to wait a little
> longer for the update to complete is minor compared to someone on dialup
> having to spend hours updating (or days, if they've just installed and
> are unaware of yum-presto), or someone with bandwidth caps having to pay
> for the download.  Besides, the high-bandwidth users can keep themselves
> busy using the connection for something else while the update finishes.
>  And even they might want to help reduce the load on the mirrors.

Since it has been added the gnome-desktop (by me) and kde-desktop (by
the KDE SIG) package groups in Fedora 12, majority of users will get it
by default.

Rahul




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