Re: Better repodata performance (was: redhat abe)

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Jan 29, 2005, Axel Thimm <Axel Thimm ATrpms net> wrote:

> How about having multiple repodatas, the base one and small
> incremental ones, the incremental ones containing also package
> cancelations? As a side effect this would also reduce download
> bandwidth and thus make even clients/users happy (not only repo
> maintainers).

+1.  Heck, make it +2.

I agree with Axel, for a change :-)

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