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Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove references to non-free from main



Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> consider package that has no dep, rec nor sug field.
> now it was possible to simply select and install it
> but with ench field the whole database has to be scaned
> one more time for each package

Dpkg already has to load the whole database. It needs to see if anything
currently installed conflicts with the package, etc.

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see shy jo


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