yum-fastestmirror by default .. no? .. why?

[Ian Chapman]

Izhar Firdaus wrote:
> why yum-fastestmirror is not installed by default ?
> 
> this might have been discussed before, but my keywords selection cant
> find it ..
> 
> can anybody enlighten me ?
> 

For me when I've used it in the past it seemed to spend more time 
figuring out which mirror was the fastest when I could have had the rpms 
downloaded already. I have no empirical evidence for that though.

-- 
Ian Chapman.