Michael Simpson wrote: > On 6/12/08, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com