On 19 May 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Its rather difficult to split package into the right amount of > chunks. Each chunk has some overhead for download and state > information (/var/lib/dpcg gets big). I think the idea of bindiffs > would be far more usefull.
I wouldn't go as far. I'm not thinking about changing the chunks, but if a chunk is not changed, why should I download? I think the package structure is good enough. As I wrote in my first mail, for example binary packages are changing often, but -dev, -doc packages not so often. Also for X, libc there are quite big, stable parts. (fonts, timezones don't change). The things needed to decide if you need a package or not can be put to Packages file, which is downloaded anyway. The program, that makes the diffs for sources, can also have a look at the generated packages, and put the results back to debian/control. Flocsy Gabor Fleischer MAILTO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.mtesz.hu/~flocsy SMS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 27733935