Re: Bug#81657: should support downloading Packages instead of Packages.gz
On 3 Feb 2001, Brian May wrote:
> Jason> Regrettably, a general option for this is really ugly
> Jason> because the only way to make it useful is to only do it for
> Jason> Packages, and even then those might go away eventually too.
>
> I am sorry, I am not sure I understand. Are you saying you don't want
> to have something specific to Packages, as you think Package will get
> obsoleted by something else? What would obsolete the Packages file?
*Uncompressed* Packages may no longer be provided by Debian, they are very
big, and not exactly worthwhile. Given that such an option would be all or
nothing, it kind of becomes pointless..
For instance, there are not uncompressed versions of the Sources file.
> rproxy has been packaged for Debian, you can just use it instead
APT's http through an rproxy proxy is considerably inferior a native APT
http method that spoke rproxy.
Jason
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