Re: Dependency checking algorithm

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 11:14 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> I am looking at the horribly slow installation when packages are 
> specified explicitly (look for an old e-mail from Jeffrey Law: 
> Interesting anaconda/yum performance issue).

Jeff then put together a patch for yum based on where I pointed him that
should have gotten this back to where it "should" be.  And that's been
in for a while.

> Anybody can point me to documentation about dependency checking in 
> Anaconda? Most of you will say that this is a yum thing but the problem 
> may be in anaconda not using yum API correctly.

It didn't have anything to do with depchecking; it was purely a matter
of package _selection_ taking a lot more time.  There really isn't a way
to use the depchecking API wrong[1].

Jeremy

[1] The progress from it, yes.  But that just impacts display