On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:30:33PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > * Keep old Packages.gz file with Descriptions. > * Make new Small-Packages.gz file w/o Descriptions, and have > new version of apt look for it, if so configured. > * Some method of getting the descriptions separately. Maybe > Descriptions.gz or maybe per-package or whatever. > * Perhaps merge Descriptions (if they're downloaded), or put > placeholders (Description: <no-description>), into files > in /var/state/apt/lists/ so there's no compatability break > in those.
Something like this should be implemented anyway when translated Descriptions will be supported and Packages size will grow by some 6 times. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216