On 03/01/2013 05:32 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote: > (the median is quite different from the avg, that means that > some packages are quite big.)
... > - That means, if I have 2000 packages installed on my system > (which is about the real number), the concatenated headers will > use 20 MByte (using the median), 10 MByte when using LZO > compression, 7.5 with xz. My guess is that the typically installed package are the bigger ones while a large number of rarely installed add-on packages are rather small (at least in header size). So it might be worth using one machine as an example instead of doing calculations with the "average package". Florian _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
