yum-presto not on by default

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 22:00:38 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 17:21 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:52 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> or generally that you find our users to be unintelligent enough to work
>>>> out
>>>> how to get a piece of software onto their systems.  I find that to be
>>>> rather
>>>> wrong, and I don't think you have to be the maintainer of yum to
>>>> understand
>>>> how to install something.
>>>
>>> There is a difference between saying someone is 'unintelligent' and not
>>> expecting them to figure out on their own that in order to solve their
>>> bandwidth problem they should install something called yum-presto.
>>
>> Right. The issue isn't whether people would be able to install the
>> package, it's whether they'd be aware that they ought to be installing
>> it in the first place.
>>
>
> which is why, I thought, we have documentation.

"OK lets read up docs on how can I let updates not require that much
bandwith" ... well how many users think that way?




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