Re: dpkg speed (was: Re: PROPOSAL: Extrafiles)
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> But that doesn't speed up dpkg's -s, -l, -S and -L options (and all the
> others that need to read the packages database, of course). That is what
> this proposal is about, speeding up dpkg calls. I haven't tried apt yet,
> since dselect (with the "mountable" method) still does the job for me. I
> wouldn't like to see dselect discontinued.
Hm, these days APT is a replacement for the mountable, ftp and http
methods in dselect, it does many more things than any one of the methods
alone.
Jason
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