Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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.
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.
The simple minded approach is to run everything through a caching web
proxy like squid configured to store large files. Then you don't have
to make a special setup to copy every version and flavor of distribution
that might need the same file more than once. Yum just needs to be
fixed to not randomize the source repo to defeat cache mechanisms.
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Les Mikesell
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