yum-fastestmirror is not the default, it should be

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Mon May 6 04:01:59 UTC 2013


On 05.05.2013 18:12, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Is there any rationale for NOT making yum-fastestmirror the default??
> 
> Without yum-fastestmirror any yum install is excuciatingly slow, think 256
> Kbps or slower.
> However if I enable yum-fastestmirror I download from the local mirror in
> .AR at 5 Mbps...
> 
> So, again, given that benefits that yum-fastestmirror providers, why isn't
> it the default behaviour? (we can have 'yum-slowyum' to revert back to the
> traditional behaviour ;-)

Among others, this[1] was a major breakthrough.
And yet you are still complaining. :)


poma


[1]
http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=urlgrabber.git;a=commitdiff;h=4876b1b10e008e9d70d9cbc69d65fb35e82f5e8f




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