Software Management call for RFEs

[Jan Zelený]

On 28. 5. 2013 at 11:39:35, Alek Paunov wrote:
> On 28.05.2013 09:51, Jan Zelený wrote:
> > I couldn't agree more. But as I have said, we need to find the most simple
> > and unintrusive things that can be done to improve this. For instance:
> > file lists take a considerable portion of the entire metadata size. But
> > if we were to remove them, things like "yum install /usr/bin/vim" would
> > not work any more. And you get similar scenario with almost all the
> > metadata that we store - we store them for a reason and without them some
> > things that people use will not work.
> 
> Not so unintrusive, but would it be acceptable if we merge all .sqlite
> DBs from all repos in a single .sqlite with tree-like schema? Let say we
> achieve overall size reduction by factor of 4, at the price of more
> complicated but faster SQL queries. [I hope that such a change will also
> make the incremental by the XML sources easier]
> 
> I am going to experiment this, if make sense ...

Perhaps it's just that I don't fully understand your vision but I'm not sure 
that's a feasible solution. How exactly would you solve the fact that users 
have different repos enabled on their machines?

Or did you mean merging them on the client side? That would not solve the 
issue of data download.

Thanks
Jan