[opensuse-factory] Repository stripping
I just read Pascals blog on his stripping of the guru mirror. http://dev-loki.blogspot.com/2006/11/repository-stripping.html The obvious question now is why don't we do something similar with our repos? Of course we should provide easy acces to debuginfo and source packages - but maybe these could be moved to a seperate repo for easy access for those who needs them. Advantages: - Less metadata for parse-metadata to choke on - Less n00bs installing debuginfo by mistake. "I wanted to install thunderbird, why does it take up huge amounts of space?.. oh, yes, I installed debuginfo too, just to be safe, I didn't know what it was or if I needed it" - Quicker refresh, less bandwidth needed - Quicker package manager startup because of less package information needing to be read etc. (PS. actually I'm not quite sure how the src.rpms are handled right now, but moving the debuginfo packages would improve performance substantially I guess) Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Martin Schlander