It means that packages will be fetched EVERY time from outside, which may be
slow(er).
Y.
We can (and mostly already have) setup simple caches to prevent that.
AFAIK CI slaves are cleaned every time anyway, so in practice there
wouldn`t be much difference except we will have less hard-coding and
perhaps be more efficient (are we certain we only download what we
need atm?)
The existing solution looks more like premature optimization gone badly IMO.
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Barak Korren
bkorren(a)redhat.com
RHEV-CI Team