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[seth vidal]

> rom 21s for 1800ish pkgs to 7s.
> 
> These numbers smell very suspicious to me from my practical yum
> experience but I never did any measurements so I cannot be sure.
> But ever if they are correct this is really not the place where yum
> is spending its time.  Running test transactions

that's funny. B/c the transaction test is one call in yum.

ts.run() with a test-only callback.

that's it.

yum does NOTHING while rpm is testing the transaction. 



>  seems to be a big
> time sink and dependency resolution as well.  In a comparison with
> that shaving some few seconds on parsing, which is really not
> noticable in the whole operation, sounds like a completely a
> lopsided trade-off for one more extra XML parser and resulting
> dependencies.

Excuse the hell out of taking optimizations  where they were available
and didn't result in worse code.


> In the whole context?  I doubt it.  Unless you have some other
> uses for that.

repoview.

-sv