On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 09:11 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > Expect memory use go up, dramatically. That's the price to pay for > > finally "fixing" the multilib %doc etc file removal bug by nuking > > the nasty skipDir hack that caused it to begin with. Whether we can > > actually live with the ballooned memory usage, especially in the > > installer, remains to be seen... > > Of the two issues, surely memory use is the worst? Many people seem to disagree. > I installed F7 on my > in-laws' old laptop with 256MB last week, it did install okay because I > took the precaution of turning everything except the most basic stuff > off (including X), then yumming it in afterwards. Previously I upgraded > FC5 on a 384MB box and it took most of the day. Are the "dramatic" > increases only seen in the multilib case itself? That wouldn't be so > bad since x86_64 boxes will have lots of memory... No the issue is not purely on multilib occurs with multiple identical basenames - eg multiple kernels, COPYING etc. Paul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
