DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

[White, Langdon]

On Jun 21, 2014 12:26 PM, "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>> what you or i prefer don't matter
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> Sure it does.  Otherwise you would not insist that your perspective is
the only right one and everyone else who has a different perspective is
always "wrong" in any such discussion.
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>> the ordinary user never uses yum/dnf at all and most of them just
>> react on the "new updates are available" in the GUI
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>
> I have been dealing with user questions in Fedora for around 10 years now
and I would disagree with that assertion.  We never really managed to
attract a large crowd of regular consumers to Fedora who preferred the
graphical interfaces for updates and the interfaces have been pretty poor
despite several revisions (up2date, pup, gpk-update etc).  It might be
change with better software managers now but I suspect that most of our
"regular" users are in fact using the command line for updates at this
point.
>
> Rahul

Now that the gui updater *requires* a reboot, I don't even use the gui when
I get the system notification (which I used to do unless I needed to do
something special).

Langdon
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