A word on package management

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat May 26 07:38:03 UTC 2007


J French (me at semitekie.com) said: 
> Package management could be greatly sped up if the header files were 
> split into two separate files, one containing only the package's 
> version, dependencies and conflicts and the other containing all of the 
> information that people don't normally look at (license, author, 
> changelog, etc)

I suggest you look at the contents of the primary xml files in the
repodata as opposed to other.xml and filelists.xml...

Bill




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