Marcel Hilzinger schrieb:
The big difference between Suse and Debian/Ubuntu is, that under Suse much more data get's fetched. So you can also search within package-descriptions etc, whereas under Ubuntu you have only package-names and files, but no description e.g. For a more detailed search you need apt-file. I think apt-file is compearable to the actual suse solution.
As a starting point, the YaST2 metadata could be compressed. Debian does that since ever, but YaST2 metadata were never compressed. The "packages" file in Factory is currently at 16 MB, a good bzip2 compression reduces it to 1.8 MB - almost 90% gone. I think that this should really be considered first because it is possible entirely without functionality loss and without complicating the architecture too much. The thing with the patterns for unneeded architectures is more a cosmetic thing because the pattern files are very small. But many users notice it because YaST displays the filenames of the downloaded metadata. For YUM metadata, there is not much to do because they are already compressed and it's a "standardized" format - it can be extended, but not changed in incompatible ways. Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org