Michael Simpson wrote:
On 6/12/08, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Can anyone think of a good reason why we should not make fastestmirror a direct dep for yum ? Its something that is well worth having and in 90%[1] of the cases, it will improve the user experience.
- KB
[1] Number pulled out of thin air - I have no facts or numbers to back that up.
nope would save me once less configuration step on every new install
Likewise for yum-downloadonly. I nearly always run updates with the --downloadonly option unattended, then baby-sit the actual update which happens quickly with everything already cached.