-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-01-20 10:47, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
That said, my suggestion is, to not approach your concern with an "all you can eat" FATE feature request, but document your examples in bugzilla and submit fixes to the individual packages you see responsible for that "waste" of disk cycles. That way you may learn, why things have been done the way they are, you may agree that it is the more safe approach, or you will have contributed to an improvement.
Just my € 0.02
I can point at one case, known for a long time. When "rpm" updates a package, it replaces configuration files storing the old as .rpmold, or the new as .rpmnew — but often both files have exactly the same content! Admins are supposed to check both versions to determine what has to be migrated from the old configuration so that the system works properly; but checking files that are the same is a waste of our time. The rpm program should verify this itself and do not produce the duplicate, because rpm is in the right position to do this. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlS+PyUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UxFACgicmn0R5GSzHabcqx8hwnvgrJ DaIAn1g7QGyv6SHT15441rf6FTKtsDEr =mYAN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org