On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 17:23 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 17:00 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 15:40 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > > > -static subpackages have always seemed to make sense to me, but it was > > > pointed out to me originally that increasing the number of subpackages > > > increases the size of the metadata and makes all yum operations slower. > > > > > > Thoughts? Perhaps a separate -static repo? > > Ugh, separate repo is a nitemare from the point of view of installation > and the build system[1] > > > To be fair - the yum operations for fc6 should be fairly dramatically > > sped up. Menno, Tambet and others have done some really good work to get > > rid of slow sections of code or repetitive pieces. > > Sadly, we can't really speed up the download of bits. And _that_ is > where this hurts us. There have been a lot of good speedups in yum; > let's not go and ruin that by making people have to download and process > more data okay - I didn't understand where we were thinking about slowness. thanks. -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
