F7 repo contains the packages that its install dvd has not. Why?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Oct 25 01:19:32 UTC 2007


Peter Gordon wrote:
> The repository itself is 31+ gigabytes in size (according to
> repoquery), and that's only the binary x86-64 repository - not
> including debuginfo packages, source RPMs, etc.

Is repoquery lying or is there that much duplication due to multilib?
Checking a local F7 i386 mirror (with no debuginfo or source package),
I get:

8.7G    fedora/mirror/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/
5.8G    fedora/mirror/updates/7/i386
15G

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