> 1. The speed and memory usage of our packaging system is at points linear
> or worse with the number of packages. [...]
> 3. More packages take up more space in /var/lib/dpkg/ [...]
Doesn't this indicate broken package management tools? I mean, if the
number of packages in Debian increases faster than hardware
speed/capacity ("linear ... in the number of packages"), we'll be in
trouble eventually anyway, right?
-itai