hi. On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:42:04PM +0800, zhaoway wrote: <snip...> > 3. Additional benefits > > Seperate changelog.Debian and `Description:' etc. out into meta-info file > could help users: 1) reduce the bandwidth eaten 2) help their upgrade > decisions easily. I like this idea. There are some ways to allow the non-Description download without breaking compatability. Here's one: * Keep old Packages.gz file with Descriptions. * Make new Small-Packages.gz file w/o Descriptions, and have new version of apt look for it, if so configured. * Some method of getting the descriptions separately. Maybe Descriptions.gz or maybe per-package or whatever. * Perhaps merge Descriptions (if they're downloaded), or put placeholders (Description: <no-description>), into files in /var/state/apt/lists/ so there's no compatability break in those. have a nice day, thomas -- Thomas Smith <tgs@finbar.dyndns.org> http://finbar.dyndns.org/ gpg key id 0xACABA81E, fingerprint: 3A47 CFA5 0E5D CF4A 5B22 12D3 FF1B 84FE ACAB A81E
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