On 9 January 2013 11:55, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So maybe it can cache the information gathered at the first time read or >> > read all the information into memory on startup (which would likely >> > raise memory consumption which would be not ideal either). >> >> I believe that synaptic does something like this as part of converting >> the data to a form suitable for GTK+ to use. However, implementing >> such caching above the APT level is a major burden from a maintenance >> perspective. > > Indeed, also because other tools have way worse issues with that > setting, e.g. http://bugs.debian.org/617856
That program is parsing Packages directly, bypassing the libapt interface. Not much that APT could do to facilitate that. > >> Better to do this in APT, [...] > > *nod* Reassigning, affects aptitude and downgrading to wishlist? Best place for it. Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
