On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:52 AM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/22/2018 05:40 AM, Daniel Mach wrote: >> >> We are pleased to announce that development of DNF 3 has started. This >> version is focused on performance improvements, new API and consolidating >> the whole software management stack. > > > How does RPM fit into DNF's view of "the whole software management stack"? > RPM is a slug (moves very slowly): no parallelism (at any point all packages > with no remaining predecessors could be updated/installed in parallel), > not even manually pipelined (decompress to memory, manipulate filesystem, > update database.) Parallelizing software updates or installations would be *begging* for pain. It would be difficult for me to recommend strongly enough against this. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
