On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:49:29PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:11:40AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > So that's a factor of 25ish more data in the Requires list. No, thanks. > > I'm assuming your argument is that you don't want to ship RPMs or > repositories where part of them grows to be 25x larger. > > But this need not be the case. Observe that the packages already > contain the data (in the libraries and binaries themselves). That data is in the RPM payload though. The YUM depsolving code does not have any of the RPM payloads available - it is still trying to figure out which it needs. So at least the YUM repodata will grow in size significantly, even if the RPMs themselves did not. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
