Re: why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Jamie Zawinski <jwz jwz org>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> The problem you're perceiving (slow operation as yum starts up) isn't at
> all due to lack of caching, but perhaps very inefficient handling of the
> cache - a lot of data has to be parsed and such, when it could perhaps
> be stored in a more ready-to-process format.

It takes *nearly a minute* to do that!  I'm on a 2GHz machine.
If it's not hitting the net, what's it doing, raytracing?

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