On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim: >> I've noticed that yum seems terribly CPU intensive. Much more than >> other things which I expect to be doing even more work than the >> databasing that yum does (working out package dependencies). Arthur Pemberton: > It also does a lot of text processing, ie. XML parsing. I thought there was supposed to be a move towards SQL instead of XML that was supposed to improve things? Or so I seem to recall reading quite some time ago.
Well the repo data is still in XML.
>> Of course, it'd help if Linux wasn't so dependency mad. > Best solution I've seen yet. >> I've seem some damn peculiar ones (like KDE being dependent on >> having htdig installed). > The htdig does have system files (libraries) Why? It's an application. It's an independent application. You shouldn't have to install htdig unless you actually want to use htdig.
Well apperently kdebase needs the libraires. Or rather according to the description of htdig: "ht://Dig is also used by KDE to search KDE's HTML documentation."
It reminds me other other stupidities I saw when installing a minimum installation for a headless server, without X, that installed various graphics libraries. What was I going to use to see them?
Did you install the system-config tools - that's what comes to mind immediately. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
