David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:24:58AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:34:10 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 11:11, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >> That is but one optimization: we already are suffering from archive > > >> bloat, what about the disk and bandwidth cost of carrying around > > >> the sigs? And since one rarely needs the md5sums anyway, what is > > >> so wrong with checking against the .deb when needed? > > > > > I just took an md5sum of every file on my system. Including things > > > like /var and /home that aren't part of packages. It's 13M, > > > uncompressed. Compressed, it's 3.5M. > > > > > If we were really worried about archive size, an md5sum is 16 > > > octets. It's hard to see that mattering to overall archive size. > > > > I am (probably) getting a Zaurus for christmas this year. I > > would like to run Debian on it. You think that the PDA has gobs of > > disk space to throw around? > > udeb's would probably be better here anyway; the checksums is > not the heaviest load on your Zaurus; dpkg itself, perl, glibc, etc will > be.
udebs are neither updateable nor purgeable. They realy are not ment for being installed on a real system. A partial exclude for dpkg as wished for by many would be better. One would tell dpkg to skip extracting /usr/share/doc on a Zaurus probably. MfG Goswin