further package removals/potential package removals

[Féliciano Matias]

Le samedi 22 janvier 2005 à 11:53 -0500, Jeremy Katz a écrit :
> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 17:30 +0100, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> > Remove rpmdb.
> 
> One of the gating factors on this is writing something to use the rpm
> metadata to provide the same information.  It shouldn't be hard, just
> will take some time.

rpmdb only store Fedora Core packages.
rpmdb is huge : 37 Mo.
rpmdb help to provide a "poor resolver" to rpm. yum/apt/up2date do a
better job.

Since rpmdb is huge, perhaps rpmdb should not provide 
/usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/ (97 Mo) but a tool to generate
the rpmdb base (like rpmdb-fedora.spec does).
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