Re: How to make Packages file 50% smaller

[Alexander Hvostov <vulture@aoi.dyndns.org>]

On 3 Mar 2001, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:

> :-> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     > I can't think of any useful role this long description serves to
>     > apt-get, other then displaying of package information for users (with
>     > apt-cache), in which case, you could use
>     > <URL:http://packages.debian.org/$package instead>.
> 
> yeah, so I have to be networked each and every time I need to browse
> the list of packages looking for something...
> 
> Please, keep in mind that there are people around that use Debian on
> laptops, home computers with an expensive dialup connection, or simply
> non-networked computers.
> 
> You'd need a separate description file which you should download in
> any case (or read from a cd) whenever the Packages file changes. 

Is that a problem? Doesn't seem problematic to me...

> Pf

Regards,

Alex.