On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > No, but those packages need to be parsed and checked for dependencies by > pkg etc... This takes lots of cycles and lots of RAM on _all_ machines, > regardless of wether those packages are actually installed. Using i see, but the consequence of this would be, imho, to change the way debian uses /var/lib/dpkg/available and friends, not to try to make less packages... ciao, andrea