Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@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 <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
