[packagekit] viability of the current yum backend ?

[Robin Norwood]

Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:45 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> 
>> I don't see at all why that is the case. Why can't you have a yum
>> backend as a loadable module that communicates via dbus with a
>> long-running yum process, while at the same time allowing a foobar
>> backend in a different module to communicate via stdout with shell
>> scripts ?
>
> Sure, we could do that over DBUS. We just have to decide when to start
> and stop it. Is the biggest issue the serialized input and output
> constraining us (which I'm not sure that it does that much) or the fact
> that we keep instantiating a new yum process?

Well, quickly playing around with 'time' leads me to think that this
line:

backend = PackageKitYumBackend(sys.argv[1:])

Takes about half a second to complete, over and above running just the
imports and then exiting.

Instantiating the backend object does all of the yum setup as well.  I
think there's probably a bigger win in keeping a persistant yum, but
some caching might be helpful as well.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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