On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 18:09 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > * It shifts "costs" from "users" to "vendor" > and from "mirrors" to "master". > * It helps users who are using networked installs to spare bandwidth > (avoids downloading obsolete packages from "Everything"/"Fedora"). > > Admitted, for most users, it would change almost nothing. > >
People doing network installs can either add the updates repo to their kickstart, or check the box in the anaconda UI, so that the updates repos are considered at install time. No download of duplicate data. In fact, having separate repos would likely cost less bandwidth. If we only had one combined repo, there would be many duplicate packages, especially if we went the route of having updates-testing mixed in and only marked by some update tag. We'd have to keep sets of what's in updates-testing, updates, and the GA release set, and all of that would be in one repodata set. Everybody doing a network install, whether they wanted updates, updates-testing, or not would have to download and consume that larger repodata, introducing a higher cost for them. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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