F7 Plan (draft)

[Bill Nottingham]

seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> It wouldn't be removing the other format. Just adding this format as a
> step on the way. Also yum would be able to handle both .xml files and
> the .db files - it would just be much faster hitting the db files.
> 
> Otherwise I'm not sure what else we can do to make the metadata
> importing much faster.

(getting wildly off topic)

So, how about moving the process from the user's view (yum/pirut)
to behind the scene (updatesd) - what if we rearchitect things so
that updatesd does all the heavy lifting, and pirut/yum just
call into that?

Bill