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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Small rant: installer environment size
From:       Chris Adams <linux () cmadams ! net>
Date:       2022-12-10 14:51:17
Message-ID: 20221210145117.GA10071 () cmadams ! net
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Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> said:
> We *could* do something about repo metadata: only install the "main" metadata,
> and not the "filepath" metadata. This would reduce the metadata size by ~80%.
> It'd also have huge benefits for speed: on small dnf operations a significant
> portion of time is spent just loading metadata.
[snip]
> If we did the split, we'd gain nice speedup on typical dnf invocations, and
> smaller memory usage, and things would be better in general. A hero who
> groks dnf and the underlying libraries and can tackle this would be needed.

Now doesn't seem like the time to dig into a significant change to the
existing dnf, but maybe it could be a requested feature in dnf5?
-- 
Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>
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