You both have a point here. As a long time fedora user and occasional packager I always considered the sudden meta data downloads a terrible issue. On a slow co

You both have a point here. As a long time fedora user and occasional packager I always considered the sudden meta data downloads a terrible issue. On a slow connection not would basically disable your package manager due to timeouts. I never looked into the technical details of yum/dnf metadata, but I suspect there must be a much smarter way to manage that stuff. Incremental updates for instance, or maybe just a different format (is it not xml?).