> on the other side i understand seth's position, that first create a > feature rich complete and bug-free version somewhere 2.1 or 2.2. but > it's clear to everyone that the most anoying think with you it's speed, > both at startup/load time and both at dependencie resolution time. so > imho it'd be nice to look into this problems soon. something like the > bootchart challenge would be useful in case of yum speed. Reading all deps (provides,requires,obsoletes,conflicts) plus also a list of all files in the rpm packages is a lot of data. The actual dep resolution time can be pretty fast. Improving the python awareness within rpmlib would be helpful IMNSHO. greetings, Florian La Roche