Christoph Wickert wrote:
In most cases the biggest part (consuming time and cpu cycles) of
the
updates is not installing them but everything else like checking for new
packages, downloading the metadata, calculating dependencies,
downloading the packages and running the transaction test. Especially
for small updates this takes much more time than the actual "rpm -U"
part.
If you include just the urgent stuff in daily updates, those will still be
the same.
Kevin Kofler