During the bombing raid on 26 Jul 2001 19:44:55 +0200, Fran�ois Pons was heard
mumbling in fear:
> "Vox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > > 3. Why is urpmi's list so big? when you do "apt-get update" you get a
> > > > 1.44meg file, when you do "urpmi update" (or whatever the command is..haven't
> > > > used urpmi in ages due to the damn size of the depfile) you get an 8+meg
>file!
> > > > why? can't this be fixed?
> > >
> > > urpmi does not just install package with dependancies, the synthesis file
> > > contains just the necessary to make install.
> > >
> > > Furthermore you can build hdlist from rpm file list, and this can be used to
> > > resolve dependencies later as well as searching file and so on, try urpmf.
> >
> > Errr....apt has "apt-cache search" (in the mdk version I have
> > installed, this segfaults, but I've yet to try the one uploaded yesterday)
> > which does about the same things that I've seen urpmf do...and still uses the
> > same 1.44meg file...so I still don't see the need for the 8+ meg file.
>
> I didn't give all features available, of course as it has been said, we can drop
> some features. This has another advantage: this is used for DrakX install
> as well as for urpmi. We can change format to get urpmi more cheaper file but is
> it necessary, look at synthesis file size so, we can use them instead of whole
> hdlist at the price of some features.
I guess the question should be, then, are those other features
worth the 6.5+ megs difference in the file? What I mean is...are those other
features you hint at used by the great majority of the users of urpmi? Or are
those features esoteric enough that only 2% of the users care about them? If
the answer is that the features are used by the majority of the urpmi users,
then it's worth keeping the big file (and worth me going to read the urpmi
documentation :) but if only a small minority needs/uses those features...it
may be worth it to ax the filesize to something more manageable.
I guess this is something for the mdk/urpmi hackers to think about, now
that I've put forth my few (tho I think valid) arguments about the huge file.
Vox.
PS: BTW, I'd love to know what urpmi features would die if the file where to be
stripped to just the synthesis file :)
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