ext Tor <[email protected]> writes: > It'll work for simple installs like that, but you lose what's known as > 'the power of apt'.
Not necessarily. You can keep the power of apt even if you only see a subset of the whole distribution. This is what happens when you have only "main" in sources.list on a Debian system, and we want to do the same, just on a much finer grained level. The idea is that once you discover a package somehow (regrettably without help from apt), that package plus all other packages that are mentioned by it (recursively) become visible to apt. Thus, what you see is always a consistent subset of the whole distribution, and apt can do its magic within it. Or in other words, discovering packages via apt-cache search or via debtags is a power of apt that we are willing to sacrifice if you gain significant better scalability. Users can of course always opt to let apt see the whole distribution. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
