On Sunday April 17 2005 3:14 am, Lee Braiden wrote: > Maybe my system just needs defragged, Nope, at this point in time, only Microsoft's filesystems are the only ones with major use that suffer fragmentation problems bad enough to warrant a tool to fix it. > but installing or even removing single packages seems to involve > lots of time and disk activity these days, compared to what it used > to take. Given the text-based nature of apt's package database > etc., I wouldn't be surprised though, if it scales horribly. The more packages you have installed, and the longer your sources.list is, the more it has to parse out of that text file. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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