[Rpm-metadata] Request-For-Ideas: requires statistics and thoughts on making our metadata smaller

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:

> This string repetition is the reason why the satsolver uses a hashed string
> pool which is created from the metadata (very fast). The result are the solv
> files.
>
> In memory the library operates on these unique ids. We were thinking about
> generating the .solv files on the server side (same sqlite approach yum takes)
> and download them, but we lack a versioning scheme for that.

I thought of doing that too, like we do with pkgids->pkgs, but I was 
interested in making a smaller change w/o bumping the db format version.

-sv