DNF5 delayed

Posted Aug 19, 2023 16:12 UTC (Sat) by jccleaver (guest, #127418)
In reply to: DNF5 delayed by vadim
Parent article: DNF5 delayed

Yes, but how many times are you, as a person, doing that on a given machine? I get that annoyance factors add up, but a 2 second to a 1 second change does not seem to warrant to me a codebase shift like this, with all the errant bugs, incompatibility and instability that will come with it.

DNF5 delayed

Posted Aug 19, 2023 19:40 UTC (Sat) by vadim (subscriber, #35271) [Link] (1 responses)

No, I mean, it's 2 seconds on a high end machine. I expect it's a lot longer on something like a Raspberry Pi. That's why it's a problem, the package manager should have good performance on any suitable hardware, not just the latest stuff.

DNF5 delayed

Posted Aug 21, 2023 16:56 UTC (Mon) by jccleaver (guest, #127418) [Link]

>No, I mean, it's 2 seconds on a high end machine. I expect it's a lot longer on something like a Raspberry Pi. That's why it's a problem, the package manager should have good performance on any suitable hardware, not just the latest stuff.

The *package manager* should, yes. But the package manager here is RPM (and librpm), which runs well, fast, and stable.

Dependency and repo management is a distinct layer on top of this, and that's what I'm suggesting doesn't need to put speed over correctness.