Quoting Neil Williams (codehelp@debian.org): > Please can this 'trend' be stopped here and now? > > The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian > purposes or other low resource units) and adding yet more fields to Couldn't there be an opportunity somewhere to have some possible hook in dpkg/apt/whatever that could drop specific fields on control files when the Packages file is written/updated on disk? This could be set by local admins...or there could be a default per-architecture...whatever. That would then achieve the goal of reducing the Packages.gz file size in low resources environments (why not even drop the long description when resources are very scarce?) without preventing innovative initiatives such as this one.... --
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