Getting apt into base

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

Here's some interesting results of compiling APT 0.3.0 with
-fno-exceptions:

Compiled without -fno-exceptions (default)

-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users      362986 Dec 15 15:15 apt_0.3.0_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users       27584 Dec 15 15:15 libapt-pkg-dev_0.3.0_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users       71358 Dec 15 15:15 libapt-pkg-doc_0.3.0_all.deb

Compiled *with* -fno-exceptions:

-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users      263898 Dec 15 18:02 apt_0.3.0_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users       27580 Dec 15 18:02 libapt-pkg-dev_0.3.0_i386.deb
-rw-r--r--   1 ben      users       71370 Dec 15 18:01 libapt-pkg-doc_0.3.0_all.deb

100K difference in the apt .deb is mighty nice. :)

Would this affect performance? Should it be default?

Ben

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