On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 16:51 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Basically, if we can't avoid the overhead of duplication altogether, I'd rather pay it on the filesystem than in the RPM database, where it's felt over and over again when dowloading repodata and when performing package management.
I think this worrying about micro-optimizing a problem that doesn't really have any real world impact. 8k is lost in the noise of an RPM transaction.
I will use the same argument with s/an RPM transaction/a Linux install/ ;) dnf is slow enough as it is, and anything we can do to help it out is a good change in my book. The impact of a single package might not be measurable, but hopefully other packagers are also paying some attention to the topic and avoiding creating unnecessary binary packages. Anyway, I'll try to cook up a patch for this that is completely stand-alone with respect to the other changes, so once it's on the list we can discuss whether to merge it or throw it away :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization