Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Les Mikesell]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

>>>
>>> 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.

The simple minded approach is to run everything through a caching web 
proxy like squid configured to store large files.  Then you don't have 
to make a special setup to copy every version and flavor of distribution 
  that might need the same file more than once.  Yum just needs to be 
fixed to not randomize the source repo to defeat cache mechanisms.

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   Les Mikesell
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