John Summerfied wrote: [snip] >>> you wouldn't have to keep redistributing the mirror list, >> >> >> It's 2K, not that big of a deal. >> > > The current implementation is. [snip] > I suspect that most of the improvement in the second run occured because > the disk data was mostly cached. What does this have to do with fetching the mirror list? [snip] > _I_ have a robustness problem with yum. > I like to use links (not elinks) for some stuff because it does graphics > on framebuffers (and under X), but elinks conflicts with links and > something requires elinks. > > Consequently having both causes some conflicts, and yum can't handle it > and won't do any updates. > > Using, apt-get I could configure to leave certain packages (eg links and > elinks) alone and it will get on with updating other stuff. The same can be done with Yum by using "Exclude". -- William Hooper
