Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

[David Mansfield]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 16:22 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 15:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > 
> > >     The main reason would be that for most of the commands, yum decides for
> > >     itself each time whether or not it will spend several minutes chatting
> > >     with repositories and mucking around the rpm database before getting
> > >     back to the human that may have not typed the right question the first
> > >     time.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > yum -C list installed gimp
> > 
> > It still wastes a lot of time, although I'm looking at fc6 - maybe it is 
> > better on newer versions:
> > 
> > # time rpm -q gimp
> > gimp-2.2.17-1.fc6
> > real    0m0.129s
> > 
> > [root at moola ~]# time yum -C list installed gimp
> > Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Installed Packages
> > gimp.i386                     2:2.2.17-1.fc6         installed
> > real    0m3.566s
> > 
> > And it gets worse on machines with more repos installed.
> 
> yum latest on fc6 is over 15 releases of yum ago.
> 
> And that's been over a year.
> 
> Please don't make comments about things from that long ago.
> 
> -sv

On F8:

[root at localhost ~]# time rpm -q gimp
gimp-2.4.4-1.fc8

real    0m0.102s
user    0m0.032s
sys     0m0.008s

[root at localhost ~]# time yum -C list installed gimp
Installed Packages
gimp.i386                                2:2.4.4-1.fc8
installed       

real    0m3.450s
user    0m2.829s
sys     0m0.394s

As you can see, it's about the same on my machine.

David