yum-presto and comps

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 04:44 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote:
> In F12 we shipped yum-presto in @gnome-desktop - a kind of a compromise I guess.
> Presto/deltarpm is very useful for machines with low net connectivity to mirrors
> but enough resources to rebuild rpms.
> 
> But yum-presto is not a desktop package at all and certainly does not
> belong in the gnome-desktop group.
> 
> Perhaps the right approach for f13 is to install yum-presto by default
> but to disable it by default?  

It looks like there are a couple of questions to deal with:
1) yum-presto is in @gnome-desktop and shouldn't be
2) yum-presto is enabled by default

If we don't want (2), then remove it from @gnome-desktop.  People who
need/want it can install it using "yum install yum-presto", and it will
start working immediately.

If we do want (2), then we just need to work out how to fix (1).  If not
@gnome-desktop (which is probably not where it belongs), then possibly
@base?

FWIW, my opinion on (2) (as the yum-presto maintainer) is that it should
be installed by default, but I'm obviously biased.

> Lighter compression might also help to reduce the resource
> requirements for older machines?

IIRC we've already reduced the xz compression level in our rpms from 7
to 2. (See http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-devel-list/2009-09/msg00946.html)

Jonathan
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