On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:09 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > Oh, no. *Bad* idea. It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem. > > > > If changelogs are bloating the headers yum has to download, then > > strip them out when generating the yum headers. > > it's not bloating the headers - well not JUST that. > > I'm also thinking of decreasing the useles space eaten up by them on the > cd isos. Switching the rpm payload to bzip2 would probably give you much more space FWIW: AFAIK, SuSE uses bzip2 payloads. Ralf