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Isn't the main reason dnf metadata is so massive that it contains the filelists of every package in repository? No other package manager requires that informati
by curt15 7y ago
Isn't the main reason dnf metadata is so massive that it contains the filelists of every package in repository? No other package manager requires that information to work. Does anyone else at Red Hat (such as the dnf developers) consider the metadata size a major problem?
- rwmj 7y agoThe filelists are a good thing since they let you do: dnf install /usr/share/mypackage/file However they are not downloaded if you're just installing a package by name (even for dependencies) which is what this test is all about.
- curt15 7y agoThen what constitutes the bulk of the metadata? I seem to recall it being much smaller back in the days of yum (~20mb), and the number of packages in the repository has not ballooned that much since then.