Volker Kuhlmann schrieb:
* Use delta rpms. Superb technology, why throw it out the window?
Rumours say that this will definitely come back and that the current lack of support for deltarpms is temporary. It was lost during the port of YaST to libzypp, but not thrown out of the window.
* Downloading >10MB of gziped repodata just to check what changed today is not really acceptable, and a killer for dialup. This also emphasizes the previous point.
This is mandated by the switch to repomd. repomd's design doesn't allow downloading only a subset of metadata because all metadata are stored in a single XML file. (It's actually not a single XML file, but the effect is the same as if it were.) Fixing this would require one of the following: a) Reverting the just introduced switch to repomd. Probably not an option. Or: b) Major modifications to the repomd standard. Not possible without a consensus between all parties that use it.
* Processes called *.exe look downright nauseating. It's silly to use too much extension for executables, the approach "it's called .xyz so it must be..." has caused Microsoft no end of grief. .exe has an unbreakable association with bad design and trouble.
Sorry, that doesn't really belong here. The usage of file name extensions is of course not specific to a certain platform.
At the very least, couldn't they call it .mono if they really thought they couldn't do better?
No, this would suggest that the assembly is specific to the Mono implementation of a CLI, which is not the case. Andreas Hanke