Re: intent to package mrename

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:36:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > One more package doesn't make things any worse.
> 
> False. One more package adds one more fraction of a second to every
> apt-get update run of every poor user who tries to follow unstable on a
> dialup modem. One more package adds one more second to every poor person
> who tries to scan through dselect for useful packages. These seconds add
> up.

True, but splitting central Packages to per-directory ones
would help much much more than stopping one or even ten packages from entry.