On Friday 02 July 2004 06.03, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > I've been following the rpm-metadata mailing list; so far, I have not > seen a compelling advantage which would justify the investment. I > don't see much momentum on the part of other distributors, either. The one thing I would wish is apt/dpkg using an index on the Packages files. Using apt-get update/upgrade on slow machines is very painful when the sources.list contains stable+testing+unstable. But an XML based thingy would certainly not be the remedy for this. cheers -- vbi -- If your computer says, "Printer out of Paper," this problem cannot be resolved by continuously clicking the "OK" button.
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