On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 02:13 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
The point is the new repodata format was proposed to improve on what
yum had, but I'm convinced it's a step backwards as it stands. It
does offer one immediate advantage to the user, namely, the faster
download of information needed for an initial dependency resolution,
but, in the long run, you end up waiting longer for downloads, on
total.
Please, if we're going to change the repodata _again_, let's keep
backwards compatibility this time. It's bad enough that yum in FC3 can't
use repositories created on a standard FC2 system; we don't want that
again in FC4.
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dwmw2