DNF vs. YUM

Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 13:52:56 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:

> The metadata are quite large and downloading them every single time is
> time consuming.

I can't think of an occasion on which I'd want to say "update this
package, but not to the latest version". For installing new software,
maybe. But updating an already installed package? I'd say the default
should be to check metadata in that instance.

Tet

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