Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote:
As for how many dependencies this would eliminate, running some quick
queries
[0] against the Fedora primary sqlite metadata database told me it'd
be about
7.3% of all dependencies (9246/126066). This is inaccurate (no
versions in
dependencies taken into account etc) but I think it should be the correct
order of magnitude.
Actually much of the benefit would be gained by just having createrepo
drop self-requires out of the metadata. That would have an immediate
benefit without requiring rebuilding the world. Of course you'd still be
downloading the dependency bloat in the rpm's themselves but now that
yum uses it's own depsolver doing this one the metadata level would
already be beneficial.
- Panu -
Except of a potential C vs Python issue I see no reason why that should be
the easier solution. Implementing it in rpmbuild would grant this benefit
for everyone and not only yum users. Rpmbuild also has a much better chance
to keep manually added requires.
Florian
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