how to have yum prefer one dependency over others

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Oct 6 19:48:02 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 15:35 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:51:43PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > (That said, there definitely needs to be a way to disable it, and maybe it 
> > > should even be disabled by default. I personally always uninstall yum-
> > > presto. For me, it's much faster to just download packages than to rebuild 
> > > them from deltas. Only users on really slow connections benefit from it.)

> > My desktop can rebuild deltas at ~3MB/sec. So even my really fast
> > internet connection is slower than delta rebuild.
> 
> Your internet connection is clearly not fast enough. :)

Not all of us get university pipes all our lives, Matt ;)
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