cpu overheating

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I've noticed that yum seems terribly CPU intensive.  Much more than
> >> other things which I expect to be doing even more work than the
> >> databasing that yum does (working out package dependencies).
>
> Arthur Pemberton:
> > It also does a lot of text processing, ie. XML parsing.
>
> I thought there was supposed to be a move towards SQL instead of XML
> that was supposed to improve things?  Or so I seem to recall reading
> quite some time ago.

Well the repo data is still in XML.

>
> >> Of course, it'd help if Linux wasn't so dependency mad.
>
> > Best solution I've seen yet.
>
> >> I've seem some damn peculiar ones (like KDE being dependent on
> >> having htdig installed).
>
> > The htdig does have system files (libraries)
>
> Why?  It's an application.  It's an independent application.  You
> shouldn't have to install htdig unless you actually want to use htdig.
>

Well apperently kdebase needs the libraires. Or rather according to
the description of htdig:
"ht://Dig is also used by KDE to search KDE's HTML documentation."

> It reminds me other other stupidities I saw when installing a minimum
> installation for a headless server, without X, that installed various
> graphics libraries.  What was I going to use to see them?
>

Did you install the system-config tools - that's what comes to mind immediately.

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