yum downloading its indexes all the time is a major PITA

[Fernando Cassia]

Isn' t there a way to config yum to only download its repo indexes only
once a dar and not every single bloody time I invoke yum for something else
other than install? (ie I call Yum whatprovides something and get

$ yum whatprovides vlc
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
[Useless, unneeded, unwanted downloading follows...]
Dropbox                                                  |  951 B
00:00
Dropbox/primary                                          | 1.5 kB
00:00
fedora/metalink                                          |  40 kB
00:00
fedora                                                   | 4.2 kB
00:00
fedora/primary_db                                        |  12 MB
00:47
fedora/group_gz                                          | 434 kB
00:03
google-chrome                                            |  951 B
00:00
google-chrome/primary                                    | 1.5 kB
00:00
google-earth                                             |  951 B
00:00
google-earth/primary                                     | 1.1 kB
00:00
livna                                                    | 3.6 kB
00:00
livna/primary_db                                         | 3.4 kB
00:00
livna/group_gz                                           |  464 B
00:00
rpmfusion-free                                           | 3.3 kB
00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary_db                                | 335 kB
00:02
rpmfusion-free/group_gz                                  | 1.6 kB
00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates                                   | 3.3 kB
00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db                        | 9.6 kB
00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz                          | 1.6 kB
00:00
updates/metalink                                         |  45 kB
00:00
updates                                                  | 4.5 kB
00:00
updates/primary_db                                       | 1.4 MB
00:05
updates/group_gz                                         | 434 kB
00:01
Dropbox
4/4
google-chrome
3/3
google-earth
1/1
vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,
                      : player and server
Repo        : rpmfusion-free



vlc-2.0.1-1.fc17.i686 : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework,
                      : player and server
Repo        : @rpmfusion-free-updates-testing

FC
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