On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:30 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:18 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > Maybe I missed the thread, but why is there ongoing work with a new 
> > depsolver?  From an enterprise user's perspective, the existing 
> > depsolver in yum 2.4.x has been great.  What does the new depsolver 
> > provide that the older one didn't?
> > 
> > Just curious.  Thanks.
> 
> potentially: speed
> 
> definitely: not needing to download the .hdr files.

... which is incredibly important when you want to support installing
from media.  People don't take kindly to having to switch CDs fifty
times so that we can grab headers off of all of them.

Jeremy

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