stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when it's not necessary

Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 01:53:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> IOW the sensible procedure is:
>
> yum clean metadata
> iff that doesn't solve the problem: yum clean all

It doesn't happen often enough that I would care about the difference.
It's not like I sit staring at the updater while it regets the cache.
All I want is that the update proceeds without much mental energy on
my part. Remember, we stupid people don't much like thinking...




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