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It seems you're being downvoted for a not very contentious experience. Running "dnf install $pkg" can take upwards of a minute (~40 seconds with default repos
by washadjeffmad 5y ago
It seems you're being downvoted for a not very contentious experience.
Running "dnf install $pkg" can take upwards of a minute (~40 seconds with default repos for me) while it invokes "dnf update". This can make the act of browsing through and installing lots of packages one by one take many times as long as using apt's cached lists.
It's the only part of dnf I'm less than enamored by.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoThe 'dnf update'* part only runs sometimes, depending on your cache expiry setting in dnf.conf. If you run a single-package 'dnf install' a bunch of times in the same hour or two, then only the first one is slow while it runs the 'dnf update'* process. Actually it just updates the metadata - it won't install new versions of packages. It is like the apt-get update, but if you actually run 'dnf update' that's equivalent to apt's update and* upgrade.