why doesn't yum cache anything?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 03.01.2005 kl. 01.25 skrev Steven Garrity:
> Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> > Is there any kind of reasonable GUI for yum yet?  A lot of these
> > problems wouldn't matter if the "session" was longer, and it was only
> > doing all of this parsing once at startup, letting you do multiple
> > queries and installs without it needing to start over from scratch each
> > time.  I thought Ximian Red Carpet was fantastic and I really miss it.
> 
> The fedoranews.org server where it is hosted is down as I write this, 
> but there is GYUM - I think it's new and I haven't tried it yet, so I 
> can't vouch it:
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=29014
> 
> Steven Garrity

It is promising, but needs some work (and some of the gui touch of
synaptic). Main problem is that it appears to hang while yum is
loading... (which can take a while), and lacking of nice sorting
functions seen in synaptic.