While we're talking about RPM dependencies ...

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 03:49:29PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:11:40AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > So that's a factor of 25ish more data in the Requires list.  No, thanks.
> 
> I'm assuming your argument is that you don't want to ship RPMs or
> repositories where part of them grows to be 25x larger.
> 
> But this need not be the case.  Observe that the packages already
> contain the data (in the libraries and binaries themselves).

That data is in the RPM payload though. The YUM depsolving code
does not have any of the RPM payloads available - it is still
trying to figure out which it needs. So at least the YUM repodata
will grow in size significantly, even if the RPMs themselves did
not.


Daniel
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