Panu Matilainen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 
> 1) Remove the "temporary" skipDir() hack dating back to 2002 completely.
> + Is really the responsible and right thing to do.
> + Fixes the shared files problems. 
> - Memory consumption goes sky-high and performance degrades badly. This
>   might not be that much of a problem in most modern systems but for eg
>   OLPC is likely to be a showstopper.

I'd argue that this is the simplest solution. Where the memory and CPU
usage skyrockets is with large number of kernel-devel packages,
and all the Red Hat/Fedora systems limit this already with things like
installonlyn. Then, in a later release, fix fingerprinting the right way.

Bill, commenting from the peanut gallery
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