On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:29:53PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > But the more interesting slowdown is that the amount of packages is general > > slows down apt operations in a rate that is around O(dependencies^2) (pure guess, > > perhaps someone has better knowledge?). We do remember apt-get slowing down > > to crawl on maemo platforms with much smaller repositories.. > Well, if we take the number of new packages Steve quoted (even w/o > taking into account the stuff I mentioned that could be reduced), and > round it to 200 new packages, that's really insignificant compared to > the amount of packages one will inject into apt per new foreign arch > configured. I really fail to see the issue here. That's based on a sample of 1200 packages currently tagged Multi-Arch: same in the Ubuntu precise archive. If we have all packages in sections libs and libdevel converted for multiarch (which I suppose we eventually will), this number will be closer to 7000. Does 700 more of these support packages approach the level that it starts to be a problem? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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