On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Don Russell <<a href="mailto:fedora@drussell.dnsalias.com">fedora@drussell.dnsalias.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The last few times I've used "yum update", I noticed the files are downloaded in order, smallest first. Is that deliberate, or just a coincidence? If it is deliberate, I'd like to suggest sorting in the other direction so largest is downloaded first. That way, while I'm waiting for it, I can always tell that the "next" file will be the same size or smaller than the one just completed, so I can better estimate how long it will be. Also, perception-wise, it gives the *appearance* that the process is speeding up instead of slowing down. :-) And, after all down loads are complete... a little summary of the average transfer rate would be nice. I like the new "scale" showing total % and individual file %... </blockquote></div> I filed a bug/enhancement, which was closed as "won't fix" Ref: <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451047">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451047</a> I guess the explanation there confirms "I'm not normal". :-)