thoughts on pain

Hi,
  two bugs this week bubbled up for me:


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564018#c32 (and below)

and

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586960

Anyone have any keen ideas on how we deal with the pkging systems being 
used in these ways and how to cope with a signifcant increase in 
the amount of metadata we're dealing with per-pkg.

Ideas other than: Fios for everyone and Ram is FREE and grows on trees!

B/c - if my estimates are roughly in the ballpark we're looking at VERY 
VERY big metadata files - xml and sqlite.

And delta metadata won't help this issue much - b/c you still have to get 
the original copy.

-sv