Hi dnf and libsolv developers, this mail is a continuation of an FPC [1] and a FESCo [2] tickets. A proposal was made is to disallow packages in Fedora from using file deps, and to optimize dnf to not load filelists.xml. File deps would still be supported, because external packages and users want to use them, but they would not be allowed for distro packages. Not downloading or loading filelists.xml which are required for file deps would provide significant bandwidth savings (~47 MB compressed) and noticeable runtime savings (~10s at dnf startup) in many common cases. So this is something that is worth exploring, but it's not clear if it is at all feasible. It seems that dnf would need to support loading filelists.xml lazily. In the mailing list discussions, some people said that this would be hard, some people said that it would be possible… What is the situation here? IIUC, dnf would need to restart the resolution of a transaction mid-flight once it encounters a file dep, which would require support across the different layers. If Fedora commits to making use of this, would it be possible to implement this in dnf? What kind of changes would be required? [1] https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/714 [2] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1955 Zbyszek, on behalf of FESCo (but not that this writeup is based on my understanding, so all errors are mine.) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/BRX7BAAFUS4HCRDN4J243FFBSECEFNTV/
