yum.conf shipped with 1.0

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mar 28/10/2003 à 07:23, Warren Togami a écrit :
> Michael A. Koziarski wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > will the yum.conf shipped with Fedora Core 1.0 include entries for 
> > fedora.us?  I think it's a good first step to introducing users to the 
> > idea of using yum repositories to get software.
> 
> In theory I would agree with you, but there are several large obstacles 
> that hinder this, the main being too much bandwidth usage for the mirror 
> pointed by the default yum.conf.  There there were a GUI/TUI mirror 
> selection tool that people were forced to use prior to their first yum, 
> that wouldn't be a problem.

If yum could handle a large mirror list all by itself that wouldn't be a
problem. Better fix yum than add a gui/tui bandaid.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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