[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Colin Walters]

2008/10/9 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>
> I'm trying to see things from somebody else's point of view.  Recently,
> on this list, somebody else was arguing that we in Fedora land should be
> doing away with tarball distribution, and srpm distribution, and instead
> direct everything back to SCM, and to work on RPM so that it just
> understood SCM and left tarballs in the past.  Thank you for providing
> some argument against that (:

I don't think it was an argument against it - just that we need to
figure out what the patch workflow is.  The fundamental question there
is - do we expose the upstream version control system, or do we say
map everything into git?  Personally I lean towards the latter.

To those who think "wow, running a git mirror of everything would be
expensive", the current lookaside system ends up being the world's
worst revision control system in the long term.  Putting one copy of
OpenOffice.tar.gz in the lookaside is certainly cheaper than mirroring
OpenOffice CVS into git for a few tarballs, git is going to be far
cheaper once you have N new releases of openoffice tarballs in the
lookaside.  I don't know what N is for OpenOffice, but I bet it's less
than 20-30.