David Walluck wrote:
>
> 12MB on a dialup connection is just too much. All we really need are the
> filenames to compute the dependencies from. The changelog is nice and all,
> but not on a dialup connection. And then the next day when you need to get
> the updates, apparently you have to download the entire hdlist again if it
> has changed.
>
> Any chance on providing a smaller hdlist for 8.1? There was some talk
> about how Debian did it, and the response was that Mandrake wants these
> extra featues. I'm not against them, I like them too on a high bandwidth
> connection, but is there anything against providing two versions, the
> other being for dialup users?
>
I stringly believe, hdlist should be splitted in two parts: one that is
needed to compute dependencies (whatever is needed) and another with all
extra information that is kept per-RPM. It is nonsense, that I have to
download decsriptions, changelogs and filelist for RPMs that I never
will use. This extra information should be downloaded on demand, kept in
cache, purged (or updated) when version is updated.
Those with high speed connection can simply download everything (and
urpmi/rpmdrake needs in this case switch to force download everyhing)
while those with slow lines can choose if they really need these exra
features.
-andrej
