Re: New package dependency field format

["Joe Moore" <joemoore@iegrec.org>]

Adam Heath said:
> Brainstorming:  There could be a bootup script that builds a cache of
> some sort, that contains the list of runtime features that are
> available.  This could be based on the kernel and cpu.  apt and dpkg
> could then read this cache.

Perhaps at "apt-get update" time?  Apt is already doing time-intensive work
(unless you are on a _very_ fast link to your mirror), building an on-disk
datastructure while parsing the Packages file shouldn't be that much more
time.  Add in a config option to not automatically update the cache, and a
--force-cache-update that the user can run occasionally if they want.

IANAdpkgDeveloper, so I might be misunderstanding the problem.

--Joe