Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:09 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > Oh, no.  *Bad* idea.  It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem.
> > 
> > If changelogs are bloating the headers yum has to download, then 
> > strip them out when generating the yum headers.
> 
> it's not bloating the headers - well not JUST that.
> 
> I'm also thinking of decreasing the useles space eaten up by them on the
> cd isos.

Switching the rpm payload to bzip2 would probably give you much more
space

FWIW: AFAIK, SuSE uses bzip2 payloads.

Ralf