On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:20:45PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 02/18/2011 06:32 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > >Define 'much' When you mentioned this on yum-devel you said 10s of > >megabytes of memory. > > > >what number are we talking about? > > Obviously it depends on what exactly is getting installed, but for a > default Fedora desktop we're talking about 50MB ballpark figures. > > While most headers are well below 100KB in size, 100-300KB headers > aren't rare at all, over 1MB headers do exist in Fedora and in > theory a single header can be up to 16MB. A minimal install is around 250-300 packages. A basic desktop is around 1200 packages, so this could be a significant savings. This is especially important for virtual environments. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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