Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:50 -0500, Les Mikesell 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.  Meanwhile the human will get bored and read email lists to fill 
> his time.

Feel free to back up the above with some numbers, please. Yum shouldn't
spend anytime 'mucking around the rpm database'. If you can find a place
where it is please let us know in a bug report.

If you want to run yum w/o having it access remote locations then do
what james said, set your metadata expiration to -1 so it never expires
and use that.

-sv