F13 kernel update mystery

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 20:25:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 12:13 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> While I agree that "yum clean all" is a pretty big hammer, I have to
> wonder why all the excitement every time it is suggested.  It isn't
> like yum itself cares all that much about wasted bandwidth.

For those of us on slow connections, bandwidth matters. Telling people
they don't need to throw away their cache and redownload a large part of
it is just being helpful, and isn't that what the list is supposed to be
about?

poc



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