DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

[Petr Viktorin]

On 06/19/2014 07:14 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> why does DNF refresh metadata in background?

To quote Aleš Kozumplík from [a previous mail]:
| majority of people appreciates having the metadata handy and only a 
minority worries about the traffic.

[a previous mail] 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/180401.html


> that has no benefit,

False.

> increases network traffic

True (in some scenarios).

> and finally leads to more likely outdated metadata in case
> you type "dnf upgrade" *when* you want to apply updates

True.


> the "failed to load plugin copr" is also just a bug

In that case please file it here: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora


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Petr³