Better repodata performance (was: redhat abe)

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:34 -0400, mbneto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think that if we reduce to amount of metadata necessary to transfer
> both users and maintainers will benefit.
> 
> They will consume less bandwidth and be able to serve more clients and
> the users will have faster downloads.

And the people who get hurt are both users AND developers.

users b/c problems will be put-near impossible to debug
developers b/c they will have lost sanity writing and maintaining this
code.


"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in
the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it,
how will you ever debug it?" - Brian Kernighan

-sv