On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:13 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > The point is the new repodata format was proposed to improve on what > yum had, but I'm convinced it's a step backwards as it stands. It > does offer one immediate advantage to the user, namely, the faster > download of information needed for an initial dependency resolution, > but, in the long run, you end up waiting longer for downloads, on > total. Please, if we're going to change the repodata _again_, let's keep backwards compatibility this time. It's bad enough that yum in FC3 can't use repositories created on a standard FC2 system; we don't want that again in FC4. -- dwmw2
