yum update sorts by file size before downloading

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM, MKas <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
> I think it's good that now is sorted by size.
>
> But it will be better if user could to changed sorting type by itself from 4 variants:
> 1: sorting all files down size
> 2: sorting all files up size
> 3: sorting dependency* files down size
> 4: sorting dependency* files up size
>
> *dependency - Ex. I want to install 3 different programs (postfix, php-mysql, wine). So yum calculates dependency and installs firstly postfix and his dependency, later php-mysql + dependency and then wine + dependency.
>

You don't have to use yum to perform updates. There are other options
available, e.g. smart or apt.