Re: inefficiencies in apt-get update

2001-01-01 Thread Brian May
> "Joe" == Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joe> apt-get update is annoyingly slow for modem-based users, and Joe> also puts an unnecessarily heavy load on the servers, for the Joe> common case where only a small change is made to the Packages Joe> or Source file for a part

inefficiencies in apt-get update

2001-01-01 Thread Joe Buck
apt-get update is annoyingly slow for modem-based users, and also puts an unnecessarily heavy load on the servers, for the common case where only a small change is made to the Packages or Source file for a part of the distribution. I just sucked down a megabyte-sized file to find that one line had