On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > Op donderdag 25 augustus 2011 11:47:45 schreef nicolas vigier: > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, David W. Hodgins wrote: > > > The problem with using "urpmi --auto-select" is that it increases i/o > > > and cpu usage for every execution of the check for updates by mgaapplet. > > > > No, it doesn't need to use all repositories to check for updates. It can > > use "urpmq --updates --auto-select" to see what updates are available, > > and only use all repositories to install them. > > > > > On my 6 year old system 5 seconds for "urpmi.update --update" versus > > > 24 seconds for "urpmi --auto-select", when the system is up-to-date. > > > > It's not doing the same thing, so this comparison doesn't mean anything. > > tbf, i personally think the best solution is actually to make it so that > urpmi --update --auto-select works the same way as urpmq --update --auto- > select, so that this can be also fixes for commandline usage when not using > the > mgaapplet.
They work the same way.
