3 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b8ba16a2..a904c0c1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+- urpmi:
+  o small transactions should have at least 8 packages 
+    (ie --split-length is now 8 by default)
+  o do not do a big transaction if installing less than 20 packages
+    (ie --split-level is now 1 by default)
 - urpmq:
   o new option --requires-recursive (alias of option -d)
   o bugfix previous release: "urpmq --fuzzy foo" should display all "*foo*" matches
diff --git a/gurpmi2 b/gurpmi2
index 3c1b81c0..53be46f3 100755
--- a/gurpmi2
+++ b/gurpmi2
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ sub configure_urpm() {
     $urpm->{options}{'verify-rpm'} = 0 if $gurpmi::options{'no-verify-rpm'};
     #- default options values
     exists $urpm->{options}{$_} or $urpm->{options}{$_} = 1 foreach qw(post-clean verify-rpm split-length);
-    $urpm->{options}{'split-level'} = 20 unless exists $urpm->{options}{'split-level'};
+    $urpm->{options}{'split-level'} = 1 unless exists $urpm->{options}{'split-level'};
     $urpm;
 }
 
diff --git a/urpmi b/urpmi
index bb24cdd3..9ddb8e44 100755
--- a/urpmi
+++ b/urpmi
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ our $src = 0;
 our $install_src = 0;
 our $clean = 0;
 our $noclean = 0;
-my $split_level = 20;
-my $split_length = 1;
+my $split_level = 1;
+my $split_length = 8;
 our $force = 0;
 our $parallel = '';
 our $env = '';