On 12/02/2009 06:05 PM, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:46 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
>> so that every directory has about the same number of things.
>
> This should be fairly easy to code, but has a big downside:
>
> Packages will move directories.
>
> 1. This will upset yum (old repo. MD == no packages download).
> 2. This might upset mirrors.
> 3. This will probably upset users:
> i. URLs will only be safe until the next mash, they
> won't even be able to bookmark <prefix>/y if they just
> want to see yum each time.
> ii. Users have to look/parse the directory layout each
> time they visit to see what "blah" is.
Yeah. Seth makes a good point - first letter is such vast improvement that
we probably don't need to worry about doing better - at least for now.
--
Peter
I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949;
quoted by Eshbach in _Over My Shoulder_.
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