On Tue, 06 Oct, 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:50:01PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my > > P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If > > we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people > > will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because > > it is so slow. That is not acceptable. > > Um, not all of us are using dselect/dpkg. Most of us refuse to because it's > insanely slow and generally braindead if you have a serious conflict. I use > dselect/apt myself.
surley you mean dselect/apt/dpkg? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste