On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:04:58PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What is the real problem with the large package files? They take a long > > time to download, but so do emacs and other bloatware. > > Yeah, but how often do you download emacs?
Never, I wouldn't touch that thing with a 40 foot barge pole! > The packages file gets downloaded _every single time_ you do an update, > and for those of us with a slow modem link, that really sucks. True enough. I haven't really been following the discussion, to be honest. Maybe there could be another version of Packages.gz without the extended descriptions -- I imagine they would take something like 33% of the Packages file, in line count at least. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
