Re: Bug#32920: apt: wish: keep /var/state/apt/lists/* files compressed
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 debian@Tonelli.sns.it wrote:
> those files are big (some megabytes)
> and when (rarely) they are used to recontruct the caches and the
> file "available" for dpkg, they could be gunzipped on the fly,
> without much CPU cost!
Sorry but no. The APT program requires random access to the package lists
durning several stages of it's operation. The Binary cache serves only as
an overview to the exact positions of the data it needs.
Jason
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