|| On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:11:02 -0300
|| Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com> wrote:
dr> <CONTENTS FILE="sources.list">
dr> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main (base,gnome,...)
dr> </CONTENTS>
dr> This is backward-compatible too, if the sections parameter (between
dr> parenthesis) is not present, then it would download the big Packages
dr> file.
dr> Obs. The choosing of the sections in apt by asking the user can be
dr> optional, leaving to the user to manually configure the sources.list
dr> file, which would make the Packages.descriptor file useless. But I think
dr> this would be a nice feature.
Other possibility and better, IMHO, is provide alternative Packages
files but at first time all will be get and then only which had
changes.
This can solve the dependencies problems and the processing time can
be smaller since you can process only the changed packages file.
What all thinks about?
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