"R.I.P. Deaddog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Jan 2002, Pixel wrote: > > > > Mandrake seems to be only major distro that does not have an "install > > > everything" option. > > > > does SuSE has it? > > > > has for RedHat they *much* less packages, so "install everything" is much less > > dangerous for them. > > Is redhat powertools taken into account?
AFAIK powertools do not exist anymore. Some packages have been included in redhat's main, others have been simply dropped. > > > I did test some "install everything" installs but things get nasty with over > > 3Gigas of installed packages. "rpm" gets slow as hell (and install time gets > > very high), and other bad things happen. > > This annoyance has been brought up many times before; installing Mandrake > RPM seems to be much more slower than installing Redhat RPM, given > similarly configured machine, containing similar number of packages. I > have no official benchmark to support me, but what I observed is that > the installation time grows exponentially for mandrake when number of > package increases, while it's more or less linear for redhat. AFAIK the same would happen with redhat. Here are some figures: 8.1pre_rc1 rpm df time/rpm rpm/df 6 () 82 66 1:26 ext2 500M 1.05 1.24 5 () 89 71 1:38 ext2 500M 1.10 1.25 3 () 94 77 1:46 ext2 500M 1.13 1.22 5 X 145 127 2:09 ext2 500M 0.89 1.14 3 X 231 217 3:26 ext2 500M 0.89 1.06 4 kde 393 316 4:31 ext2 2G 0.69 1.24 4 kde 393 316 4:41 ext2 2G 0.72 1.24 4 kde 393 316 4:43 ext2 4G 0.72 1.24 5 all 367 337 5:02 ext2 500M 0.82 1.09 4 kde+gnome 454 370 5:50 ext2 4G 0.77 1.23 4 kde+gnome 454 370 6:10 ext2 4G 0.81 1.23 4 kde+gnome 454 370 6:24 ext2 4G 0.85 1.23 5 all 489 406 5:55 ext2 4G 0.73 1.20 5 all 490 406 5:18 ext2 1G 0.65 1.21 4 kd+gn+dsk 594 494 7:31 ext2 4G 0.76 1.20 4 prev+dev 827 696 10:27 ext2 4G 0.76 1.19 4 all 1100 988 19:34 ext2 1G 1.07 1.11 3 all 1640 1331 31:33 ext2 2G 1.15 1.23 3 all 1740 1434 39:38 ext2 4G 1.37 1.21 2 all 2252 1843 54:40 ext2 4G 1.46 1.22 -1 all 2490 2048 61:02 ext2 4G 1.47 1.22 The interesting part is the time/rpm when installed size grows: - up until around 1G, it's quite stable (except for very small installs) - with bigger installs, time increase a lot On a >4G rpm database, a simple "rpm -e small_package_with_few_dependency" takes forever (forever being around 20seconds)
