On Mon,24.May.10, 09:24:31, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2010 00:26:57 +1200 > Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > > Aaaah! what about the bloat added to the packages.gz file? You can find > > the functionality by "apt-cache show radeontool", but I agree it should > > be a suggests. > > When doing an upgrade, having to stop and run 'apt-cache show xxxx' for > every recommends is annoying, and the information can sometimes be > pretty opaque, for things like library packages and lower-level glue > layers. > > I don't know what to say about the size increase in packages.gz.
There was a plan (already implemented?) to treat the English package descriptions as just another "translation" and separate them from the Packages file. That would be a huge save in space and could allow for new features such as this. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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