meta-repository idea (was Re: mplayer vs. xine)

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, seth vidal wrote:

> > - Do we really want users to download all the src.rpm data each time? Most 
> > users don't do anything with that information so it sucks up bandwidth for 
> > no purpose. Maybe the src.rpm file information should be separated to 
> > different files?
> 
> the src rpms stuff are more of a <Shrug>. I got a bunch of complaints
> about yum's src.rpm header.info file being separate from the primary
> header.info so I figured that might help resolve it.

Dunno, nobody ever complained apt having separate files for binary and
source indexes :) Not that I personally care about it either, I've enough
plenty enough bandwidth and would download the src.rpm stuff 
anyway. Just a bit of wasted bandwidth for everybody to download those but 
no big deal.

> > - Any particular reason for using gzip instead of bzip2? The difference 
> > can be huge, especially for other.xml:
> 
> Yah - bzip2 isn't everywhere - gzip is.
> Specifically bzip2 isn't in python 2.2 - you need an external module
> that's not in fedora core 1.

Ok, I thought it might have to do with that. OTOH there's a bz2 python 
module in python 2.3 which is in FC2, which I think is the "target" for 
this stuff anyway.

	- Panu -