Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:36:13PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> The slowdown is probably caused by not having enough memory. It's not apt
> but dpkg that's horribly slow when you have 64 MB or less. See bug
> #245970. Telling people that they should feed their system fewer packages
> is just crap.
Do you realize that a single release's package list is about 12 megabytes?
You don't feed a program a dataset which takes up half your available memory
by itself, and then complain that it can't keep it all in memory along with
the rest of the system.
Certainly not for the marginal benefits of configuring apt this way.
> Dpkg should work in O(1) time (or O(log(N)), that's good enough too) per
> package, not in O(N) time where N is the total number of packages on your
> system.
Sensible people should take more care with how they address others in a
public forum.
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- mdz
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