yum-presto and comps

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Jan 7 13:26:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 04:44 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote:
> In F12 we shipped yum-presto in @gnome-desktop - a kind of a compromise I guess.
> Presto/deltarpm is very useful for machines with low net connectivity to mirrors
> but enough resources to rebuild rpms.
> 
> But yum-presto is not a desktop package at all and certainly does not
> belong in the gnome-desktop group. [1]
> 
> Perhaps the right approach for f13 is to install yum-presto by default
> but to disable it by default?  Lighter compression might also
> help to reduce the resource requirements for older machines?
> 

I don't think that there really is something to fix here, and I don't
know that I can make you happy. If I do the customization in the
kickstart file, you complain as well (see PK-command-not-found)....




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