On 30 Jan 2005 18:16:21 -0200, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 278.7MiB) just in metadata over a period of 9 months, total That's about 1 megabyte per day. I'm hard pressed to say that it makes much difference in overall end-user traffic, especially seeing as you are probably an exception: it's much less than that for a "generic user" who has base, updates-released, and maybe freshrpms or fedora.us+livna configured. Hell, I get about that much SPAM every day -- ~200 5k messages, that works up to about 1MiB. Now, I had to download and install 180MiB of OpenOffice updates yesterday. THAT sucked. The amount of YUM truffic compared to that is simply inconsequential. Network bandwidth is getting cheaper by the day. I'm not sure it's worth developing ulcers and hernias over each kilobyte. Essentially, it's the same argument as whether it's better to write code in C or in assembler -- at some point the benefit of having an abstracted environment that's easy to maintain wins over the "but it's so much larger in size!". Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Zlotniks, INC
