On Jan 30, 2005, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since we've reduced this to name calling I think I'll step away from the > conversation. Please don't do that before going through the numbers and analysis I posted and telling us what you think is wrong in them. I certainly don't intend this to turn into name calling. You were the one who wrote: ``Just so we don't go off into deeply uninformed space:´´ and ``Sheesh, go read the code, stop making suppositions based on anecdotes.´´, and then: > it downloads repomd.xml everytime - that's < 1K. > it downloads primary.xml.gz if the file has changed - that's typically < > 1M. > it downloads filelists.xml.gz only when there is a file dep that it > cannot resolve with primary.xml.gz. Which is precisely the model I had in mind when I posted my e-mail. So maybe I had read the code, or didn't have to. But instead of showing whatever you found to be in error in the hard data I posted, you chose to attack points in which either I wasn't sure on how exactly up2date, yum-2.0 and yum-2.1 chose to address a certain issue (and whose exact difference didn't matter at all for purposes of the comparison), or in which I probably wasn't sufficiently clear to expose what I had in mind, because you understood something completely different or missed the analysis relevant to understand that passage that was elsewhere. So let's please go back to the numbers and stop name calling. I apologize if I gave the impression that I wanted to get into this sort of discussion. I don't, and the only way to justify my actions is because I felt attacked when you implied I had no clue on what I was talking about. I'll be the first to admit I don't have complete knowledge, and I'm always eager to learn, but I don't see anything wrong with the analysis I posted, and your posting didn't show absolutely anything wrong with it, which to me shows I wasn't that clueless, after all. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
