[Yum-devel] parsePackages() vs matchPackageNames()

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 02:24 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> It's either too late or night or I'm losing my mind:
> 
> For cases where matching case insensitively nor matching against a
> subset of packages from any given sack are not at issue why are we using
> packages.parsePackages() vs just using sackobject.matchPackageNames()
[snip]
> I don't remember having this conversation before so I'm thinking some of
> it just legacy hang-around. I know why parsePackages exists - it's so we
> can case insensitive matches - but we're never going to do that for
> update/install/remove so that doesn't matter. 

Isn't one of them faster?  I have a vague recollection of looking into
something along these lines ~ 6 months or so ago

Jeremy