On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:47:09PM +0000, Thom May wrote: > * Dmitry Borodaenko (d.borodaenko@sam-solutions.net) wrote : > > > > As you may have guessed, Packages without Description compresses much > > better, and thus can save not only memory, but bandwidth as well. > > > How... useless. how do you then generate human readable descr??ptions? > -Thom First of all, why should the Packages file be readable? Isn't it just an index? Second, all the human readable descriptions would be in the different pool directory, i.e. in the file pool/main/f/foobar/Packages. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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