Comment 8 for bug 913230

(In reply to comment #6)
> A few remarks:
> 1) This will make MageiaUpdate wey slower
> (quite a lot more synthesis to parse, quite a lot more of requires
> to parse/compute)

This is a real issue, yes.

> 2) Even with that behaviour, we WILL STILL FAILL on some machines
> if user has eg DVD media but not full network media
> and thus some packages may still be missing from DVD
>
> 3) Fred Lepied, Frederic Crozat & Warly have decided to remove
> all code that was adding full media and the like, checking for
> missing media, ... b/c of that

This is not an issue if we _require_ all online medias to be added,
and remove the option to "add updates media only"

>
> It's quite a lot more work to try to make this work than just add/link the
> missing media to */updates
>
> What's more at this stage, after release.

This is the real important point right now for the already released distro.
Let's do the linking thing for Mageia 1, in order to get it fixed _fast_ in a way we know works.

> We've a decade of history & experience of what works and what doesn't, so why
> try to go the bad way again?

Progress means re-evaluting decisions made earlier to see if things have changed / can be changed. Status quo is not always the best (or worst) option.

The point now is that pretty much every user have full medias added anyway,
so we really should take advantage of that.

But the hdlists/synthesis/metadata issue needs to be reviewed/fixed/optimized.