On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:53 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 17:43:19 +0930, > Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tom Horsley: > > >> So things will get ever so much better in F7 with even more packages > > >> in giant consolidated repo :-). > > > > Todd Zullinger: > > > Hopefully. :-) > > > > > > 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. It doesn't have any impact at all. The keyword is: cache > 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. Not at all, yum does this automatically (cf. /var/cache/yum/packages). Ralf
