[Yum] Comments and Suggestions

Fikret Skrgic skrgic at comcast.net
Sat Oct 22 17:22:01 UTC 2005


I think that it is completely unnecessary to stop execution if one of 
repositories is temporarily unavailable. Why not just skip it and go on 
to the next one, like apt does.

One more thing. I find it also unnecessary for yum to refresh the lists 
of packages prior to any action. If I try something and it goes wrong or 
I remember that I have to install something else after a successful 
install, there is no need to refresh the lists of packages. They are 
already up2date. Yum should only do a refresh if specifically asked to 
do so, like apt does. These refreshes can be an annoyingly lengthy 
operations on older hardware. Yum should keep information in a database, 
so that it is available without a refresh.



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