Bug 1038210

Summary: install yum-plugin-fastestmirror by default
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jackie Meese <kalaklanar>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: admiller, ffesti, firas.alkafri, packaging-team-maint, zpavlas
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Description Jackie Meese 2013-12-04 15:48:15 UTC 
Description of problem:
yum-plugin-fastestmirror is not installed by default

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How reproducible:
Every new install

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora with standard GUI, any options
2. reboot
3. no yum-plugin-fastestmirror installed
4. yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
5. enjoy faster installation and updates

Actual results:
no yum-plugin-fastestmirror installed unless by hand

Expected results:
rpm -q yum-plugin-fastestmirror returns an installed package

Additional info:
This has been available forever, and now something similar is used for the network installer, why not the full os?
Comment 1 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-12-04 16:24:29 UTC 
With the current yum the fastestmirror plugin helps very little.  It provides the original mirror ordering, but as soon as mirrros are used their bandwidth estimates are used instead, and the fastestmirror order is ignored.

It might help in very special cases like 100+ mirrors with large fraction of them being very slow or unreachable, but I don't think this is common.  Without fastestmirror plugin we use the mirrormanager order with is usually pretty good, too.  And as mirrors are actually used, they get reordered anyway.

The short answer is that we want to drop and obsolete it, but since it does not hurt, it's still there.  I haven't removed it from the list of packages installed by defauld but am glad someone did.