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Author Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format
Guus Sliepen

2004-07-02, 9:25 pm

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:17:04PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>
> Do you realize that a single release's package list is about 12 megabytes?
> You don't feed a program a dataset which takes up half your available memory
> by itself, and then complain that it can't keep it all in memory along with
> the rest of the system.


I do complain about that, because I think it is possible to change the
program so that it can keep the relevant part of that dataset in
memory most of the time.

> Certainly not for the marginal benefits of configuring apt this way.


For some people the benefit might be more than marginal. And it's dpkg
I'm talking about, not apt.

>
> Sensible people should take more care with how they address others in a
> public forum.


What was unsensible about that, apart from the fact that you apparently
don't agree with me?

--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org>

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