yum-presto not on by default

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Sep 24 20:32:53 UTC 2009



On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Andre Robatino wrote:

> On 09/24/2009 04:22 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> As I said when asked the last time - I don't have a preference if it is
>> installed and on or not installed. I don't consider the single command a
>> significant barrier, either way.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it is the end of the world, either way.
>
> The inconvenience for a high-bandwidth user of having to wait a little
> longer for the update to complete is minor compared to someone on dialup
> having to spend hours updating (or days, if they've just installed and
> are unaware of yum-presto), or someone with bandwidth caps having to pay
> for the download.  Besides, the high-bandwidth users can keep themselves
> busy using the connection for something else while the update finishes.
> And even they might want to help reduce the load on the mirrors.

As I said above:

"I don't have a preference if it is installed or not"

so I am the WRONG GUY to be asking about making it default installed 
and/or default enabled.

-sv




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