On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:50 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > I don't really have much of a list to speak of, but one item that'll probably > be there is "make yum faster", almost no matter how fast it already is ;). > It's always an enlightening experience and a reminder for this to use apt-get > on a Debian system... (yeah, apples and oranges at least to some extent but > anyway).
I'd be curious how we'd do if we got rid of all file deps and in fact all need to reference files at all. the file lookups are fairly expensive the last time I checked and they are definitely heavy in the metadata. > The other nagging thing I have on my "list" is that Provides versioning > should > trump shortest name when deciding best packages for a dep. For example if > foob provides bar = 1.0 and foobar provides bar = 2.0 and something asks for > bar, it should resolve to foobar (because bar = 2.0 is "better" than bar = > 1.0) and not foob (like it currently does, because foob is shorter than > foobar). One real world case for this in Fedora and friends is various java > (JDK) packages. I believe I've suggested/reported this earlier but to my > surprise it turned out somewhat controversial. You'd need to modify compare_providers() to not only include the package requiring them but also what dep it is requiring. But adding it to compare_providers is straight forward - go take a look. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list Yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
