Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 17:43:19 +0930,
  Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tom Horsley:
> >> So things will get ever so much better in F7 with even more packages
> >> in giant consolidated repo :-).
> 
> Todd Zullinger:
> > Hopefully.  :-)
> > 
> > The merge will help eliminate some work though.  Now packages can
> > freely require any of the packages from the collection.  Previously,
> > Core packages could not depend on anything from Extras. 
> 
> I wonder how those who wanted to cache core, locally, but not all of
> extras, will fare.  Suddenly many gigs got added.

Gigs that you don't really need to back up are cheap.
If you really are space or bandwidth tight, then you probably need to build
some sort of dependency list so that you know which rpms you need.