Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?
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- Subject: Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?
- From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:46:03 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19981001084603.B18055@molec3.dfis.ull.es>
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- In-reply-to: <19980930194538.A8314@whitestar.soark.net>; from warp@whitestar.soark.net on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:45:38PM -0400
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On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:45:38PM -0400, warp@whitestar.soark.net wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:42:34PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:49:38PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > > Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> > >
> > > > Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > In addition to the packager apparently being slower, and the
> > > > > unnecessary interaction, many Debian packages do a lot of unnecessary
> > > > > computation: recompiling elisp files 3 or 4 times, recompiling TeX
> > > > > formats, etc.
> >
> > - slower: That will be fixed using binary databases.
>
> binary vs text files for management, another reason why I don't use
> redhat..
IIRC, the binary databases will be used as "cache", and will be
generated from the text ones when needed, the way "apt" does it.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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