APT, Yum and Red Carpet

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Aug 12 16:41:53 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 12:38, HoytDuff wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 11:08, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >
> > it hurts mirror maintainers. I don't want to carry around 4 copies of
> > the same data.
> 
> True, but the metadata is small in comparison to the aggregate size of other 
> files. It's only an interim solution, but one that could happen quicker than 
> an agreement on a shared format.


When your drives are already near capacity then 'small in comparison to 
the total size' is not terribly small.

-sv







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