On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:32:57 -0500 Peter Horst <phorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FC-5. A general question about yum - after yum loads its plugins, > and reports that it is "Setting up repositories," it seems always to > take forever to go through its little motions. I'm probably just > spoiled, but I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it somehow. In my > imagination at least all yum has to do is a few table lookups, and it > seems to take way too long (not hours, of course, but just ... a long > time). Am I alone in this? > > Thanks much. Hello, Peter No, you are not alone. "Setting up repositories" used to be a LOT faster than it is now. Don't know when it got so slow, but it is slower than it was, nonetheless. Steven P. Ulrick