> 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