James Wilkinson wrote:
This is something that always bothered me with yum (specially). Even on cable , sometimes I have to abort a update because I need to reboot to do something important.. And usually this happens when I'm at 50% download of a big package (usually kernel-sourcecode). Then , the next yum run , I have to restart the download (I know it's only the download of a single package , but for dialup users this is a nightmare. For me , it's just a little delay in the updates , but I still dont like the waste of bandwith caused by the lack of a resume function in yum).Brad Smith came up with a list of reasons why some users might prefer not to use repositories.
Another one is that they don't work well with sneakernet, in my experience.
Maybe if yum had a resume feature , it would be more dialup friendly ... And there's also the headers issue (downloading all those headers on dialup probably isnt fun at all).
-- Pedro Macedo
