>> Benefits:
>>      - Package Manager/Update Manager startup with fully loaded
>>        descriptions will be reduced. Our goal is to have fully
>>        functional GUI application with loaded data in less then 10
>>        seconds. This needs to be done in the scalable way, so the user
>>        will not loose the performance even with loads of authorities.
>>   

The only way you can meet this goal with loads of authorities is
to restrict the startup screen to showing the top level of
software categories available in the different repositories.

This is easily doable (w/ software changes), and doesn't require
performance to scale with the number of packages * number of repos.

Client-side caching won't help, either, since it's really easy to end
up w/ 100k package versions.

- Bart


Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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