On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com> wrote:
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cornel panceac wrote:
>> 2008/6/13 Jerry Amundson <jamundso@gmail.com <mailto:jamundso@gmail.com>>:
>>     Not necessarily. Even at high speed, I don't want dozens of rpm
>>     downloads taking all the bandwidth. I have mailgroups to read!
>>
>>     jerry
>>
> what if you download only one rpm per repo?

Doesn't really help if you're bandwidth constrained. Parallel downloads
from different repos will still end up crushing your network connection.

Parallel downloading is good for some users but it probably shouldn't be
the default.

Regards,
Bryn.


So a yum-paralllel-download would be a good package to have ;)