Fedora: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

Posted Aug 30, 2005 7:59 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: Fedora: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming by maney
Parent article: Fedora: RFC: X.Org X11 modularization project - rpm package driver naming

If you have to download a whole 50MB package to fix a security issue in just one 20kb binary, then your package system is flawed and should be fixed, and not the packages ajusted to this broken system.

In case of Fedora the package system would be rpm. And as I see on my SuSE system, rpm can handle patch rpms and binary deltas, so even after a complete reinstall of SuSE 9.3 (which is soon half a year old) I still do not have to download more than 10MB of security updates, including kernel and kernel source.

This is the way and not uselessly modularizing every big package and thus slowing the system down with huge package databases.