On 12/02/2009 06:05 PM, James Antill wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 17:46 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> so that every directory has about the same number of things.
This should be fairly easy to code, but has a big downside:
Packages will move directories.
1. This will upset yum (old repo. MD == no packages download).
2. This might upset mirrors.
3. This will probably upset users:
i. URLs will only be safe until the next mash, they
won't even be able to bookmark <prefix>/y if they just
want to see yum each time.
ii. Users have to look/parse the directory layout each
time they visit to see what "blah" is.
Yeah. Seth makes a good point - first letter is such vast improvement that
we probably don't need to worry about doing better - at least for now.
--
Peter
I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949;
quoted by Eshbach in _Over My Shoulder_.