On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Adrian Schroeter wrote:
Basicaly two reasons:
1. Mirrors can skip the debuginfo packages, without an exclude rule and without to "break" the repository meta data.
2. The installers have less meta data to handle by default (when you ignore the -debug repo), this let them take less memory, faster downloads of the meta data and faster solving.
Thanks. I'd appreciate to see short explanations like this one in the first place when making announcements like this. Just saying "on popular request" did not sound as if the decission was really based on a reason. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."