Issues with yum

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 19:22 +0530, elison.niven at gmail.com wrote:
> 1) yum should maintain status of installed packages locally. And it
> should not need to fetch repository information when user tries
> yum info <installed-package>
> Reason to have this feature : It seems logical to have information
> about an installed package locally.

yum -C info <installed-package>
from --help:
  -C, --cacheonly       run entirely from system cache, don't update
cache


> 2) yum is currently downloading repository information separately for
> each user.
> It can use the same downloaded repository information for all users.
> For example : root did yum install <some-package> followed by
> Non root user did : yum info <same-package>.
> yum will currently fetch repo information again for the non root user.
> Reason to have this feature : Save time, bandwidth.

Wrong, information are cached in /var/lib/yum.

> 4) Quit on single CTRL-C. Users expect an application to quit on
> pressing CTRL-C.
> Reason to have this feature : Better user experience 

Do you really want the option to ^c in the middle of an update ?
Allowing the user to end-up with a half-updated system ?

Pierre