On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:53:18PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:49:29PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:11:40AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> > > So that's a factor of 25ish more data in the Requires list. No, thanks. >> > >> > I'm assuming your argument is that you don't want to ship RPMs or >> > repositories where part of them grows to be 25x larger. >> > >> > But this need not be the case. Observe that the packages already >> > contain the data (in the libraries and binaries themselves). >> >> That data is in the RPM payload though. The YUM depsolving code >> does not have any of the RPM payloads available - it is still >> trying to figure out which it needs. So at least the YUM repodata >> will grow in size significantly, even if the RPMs themselves did >> not. > > I'm not arguing that's how yum works now, but it doesn't have to work > that way! > > It could incrementally download the RPMs during depsolving, test that > they work together, and with that information download further > packages as necessary ...
Ugh no ... the whole point of the repodata is to avoid having to download the rpms to calculate deps. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
