On Tue, 28 May 2013 20:42:13 +0300 Alek Paunov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So, it seems that yum already have the "filelists on demand" > optimization implemented. Why you are asking for removing a feature, > which do not make the things worse ... ? I'm not. But when you download the filelists - it is A LOT of data. I'd rather not have filedeps so it doesn't get pulled in for other things in depsolving. > I have a few questions: > > * What is the reasoning behind the splitting of the database across > many .sqlite files? many? it's 3 afaik. primary, filelists, other. how do you mean 'many? > > * Why the sql schema is so denormalized (IMO, leads to both > bandwidth and disk overspending without speed benefits)?. For > example: Why provides and requires tables do not use the common > domain table? B/c it was designed 8yrs ago and we were going for compressable space and making it as quick as possible to search? > * Why the incremental update mechanism (eg. applying xml diffs to > the sqlite database) was not been considered from the very beginning? It wasn't necessary? There was a massively smaller number of pkgs to consider. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
