repository creation

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> so you end up with srpms and debuginfo rpms in there.
> 
> So you get 2623 pkgs to read through for fc3 base
> 
> but if you just read through binary rpms you only have 1653 pkgs to read
> through. A pretty serious savings, almost 1000 packages.

What is the amount of time/memory/etc used during reading of this
extraneous data?

Bill