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Xyne

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repo-add overhead

If a "database" is just a tar.gz'd collection of files, is there any difference in overhead between the following?

a) repo-adding a single package to a database (updating an existing package)
b) removing the database and rebuilding it by repo-adding all the packages

Would b involve less overhead because it doesn't need to unpack the database first?

I know that any difference doesn't matter much for what I'm doing. I'm mostly just curious but I do have scaling in mind.

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