yum-presto not on by default

[shmuel siegel]

Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> Tried it and it works correctly for both directions (old rpm gzip, new
> rpm xz and vice versa).
>
>   
>>  This would mean that drpms on rawhide will still suck upto F12, but I
>> could live with that :).
>>  I assume we don't do F11 => F12 drpms?
>>
>>  On the other side of it, does anyone have any stats. on how much was
>> saved by using Xz instead of bzip2? -- Ie. what we'd lose if we did a
>> mass rebuild.
>>     
>
> Here's one I came across:
> http://fedoratux.blogspot.com/2009/05/xz-compression.html
>
> Jonathan
>   
The article also hints at our problem. We ARE doing the compression on 
the end user side. So the compression is costing us 3 minutes to save 24 
megabytes of transmission. This actually slows things down for most 
broadband users.