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[p2-dev] Processing of binary IUs 

Hi,

I have a couple of questions about dealing with binary IUs. For all I understand, first P2 downloads them to a local
directory (p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core/cache) and then runs install instructions.

- Why is such local download necessary? Say, if install involves just unzipping, it should be possible to directly
  stream data from a server and unpack them on the fly, without local storage of zipped data.

- I see there's a bug about binary cache having unbounded size - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=395127
  How do people work this problem around? If I just wipe all this cache on product startup, will anything break?
  I must admit I don't understand the purpose of caching here.

Thanks,

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Vladimir Prus
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/

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