Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:53 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 17:43:19 +0930,
>   Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Tom Horsley:
> > >> So things will get ever so much better in F7 with even more packages
> > >> in giant consolidated repo :-).
> > 
> > Todd Zullinger:
> > > Hopefully.  :-)
> > > 
> > > The merge will help eliminate some work though.  Now packages can
> > > freely require any of the packages from the collection.  Previously,
> > > Core packages could not depend on anything from Extras. 
> > 
> > I wonder how those who wanted to cache core, locally, but not all of
> > extras, will fare.  Suddenly many gigs got added.
It doesn't have any impact at all. 

The keyword is: cache

> Gigs that you don't really need to back up are cheap.
> If you really are space or bandwidth tight, then you probably need to build
> some sort of dependency list so that you know which rpms you need.
Not at all, yum does this automatically (cf. /var/cache/yum/packages).

Ralf