Re: How to make Packages file 50% smaller
On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:41, Brian May wrote:
> Does this file really *need* to contain long verbose descriptions of
> packages?
Okay, being a brand-new guy here, I might mistake something, but in my case,
wouldn't this cut the long descriptions in e.g. aptitude? Because I wouldn't
want that.
On the other hand, I have about 4 mirrors for unstable, 3 mirrors for stable,
and a few other deb-sources, and even on my 256kbit DSL it takes around 15
minutes to do an 'apt-get update', which is pretty annoying, so a reduction
in this time would be great. Possibly having only one repository for the long
descriptions, and then downloading Packages-files without the long ones would
be the solution, as you suggest.
Another thing, which I have been wondering about - and please don't bash me
too much for showing how little I knwo - is if you could download .diffs for
the Packages files. Couldn't you supply a time-stamp, and the server would
return a .diff? Or would that generate too much CPU-load?
Anyway, that's my 2 cents :)
/Kenneth
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