[Fedora-packaging] Re: Proposal to limit file deps

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 1) If this is a problem that only affects yum and all the other 
> depsolvers do it efficiently, would it be better to fix yum instead or 
> working around it by spec file changes?

No, it's the other way round: yum is more efficient in downloading
because it most often does not need to download everything, while the
other depsolvers always download the bist in advance. It's a bit
oversimplified, but that servers for a first picture.

The discussion is about whether some packages force yum to go download
and drop its bandwidth performance to that of the other depsolvers,
but that's just 0.7% of all packages, so not really worth attacking at
all IMHO.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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