[Yum] Yum Ideas?

[seth vidal]

> Does anyone have any interest in implementing it? Or is it a no-go? 
> Would you accept patches if it was implemented? (No promises).

yes someone has sent me patches - I'm not entirely happy about it being
done at all, I think, but i'm slowly being worn down.


> Simply because we run a repository at the end of a "256kbps" link.  
> There are a number of reasons for that which I won't bother you with.  
> If someone sets up a new box, and wants to perform an full upgrade and 
> then someone else hits the repository, download speeds suffers a lot.  
> It is better to try again later.  Of course, not such an issue in a 
> University.
> 
> Anyway, we are interested in all of these and we would/could consider 
> implementing them if we felt that there was interest and a chance that 
> they would get migrated.  Again, no promises.

it's just a matter of changing the progress callback to report speed.
not hard, just not priority, either.

-sv