On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Sami Dalouche wrote: > If I had to change something in the Debian package manager, I would > like it to use bzip2 instead of gzip, but this doesn't need a > omplete reimplementation. The problem isn't technical, but it's been > debated many times. I don't exactly know the problem w/ this compression > except it saves time ;) > Anyway, if you think something isn't perfect, you can always help the > development of Dpkg, or apt.
I think if dpkg used some sort of hashed database index it would be a hell of a lot nicer to people's CPUs and memory. Whether or not that requires a re-implemenetation of dpkg or not isn't for me to say since I haven't looked at dpkg's code in 3 years. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 * o-o always like debmake because he knew exactly what it would do... <ibid> o-o: you would ;-)
