On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 21.06.2014 16:42, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: >> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> stop the automatic bandwidth wasting at all and you don't >> have to fix anything - don't you realize that this 50% are >> the ones with the slow WAN and the ones with fast internet >> don't need prefetch of metadata at all? >> >> Even if I have a fast connection, I prefer metadata refreshes to happen >> automatically in the background and >> consider it as a useful optimization. I would disable that service in a >> server perhaps and that is something for >> the server product to consider > > what you or i prefer don't matter > > the ordinary user never uses yum/dnf at all and most of them just > react on the "new updates are available" in the GUI - fine that > runs completly in the background - there is no slower/faster > in that context and most ohters case about *fresh* metadata > and not previously cached ones
Well there is not much difference between a few hours old metadata and "fresh" metadata. You might as well hit a mirror that is a few hours behind in syncing .... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct