On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I did some quick math to see how much a Packages file will grow > if we add a Homepage URL.
> As a result of this the Packages file will increase 516343 - 25919 = 490424 > bytes, or around 479 kilobyte. That is a lot of data for people using > modems. Isn't Packages compressed when apt-get downloads it? Looking at woody's Packages.gz, it's compressed about 5:1, so I would expect this new homepage tag to compress at least equally well, turning this into a 100kb expansion. Mike
