On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:54:18AM +0200, Andreas Hanke wrote:
Someone has to parse all this stuff. I mean, the metadata. It is well known that zypp parses the repository metadata slowly. It has already become faster and it will become even better, but it's still slow.
And it's not just zypp. Yum, with the new(!) C metadata parser written by Tambet Ingo, needs half a minute to parse primary.xml and again half a minute to parse filelists.xml on my laptop. I don't even want to know how slow it would be with the old python parser.
OK, so you are proposing a *workaround* for a known and very severe
problem. Especially with factory, we should *not* concentrate on
workaround but on *fixes*! So as long as factory is a development
branch, this *should not* be done.
ciao
Joerg
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Joerg Mayer