On Thursday, June 04, Jukka Neppius wrote > > How fast does it have to be? I made a test program to read > /var/lib/dpkg/available. (1181637 bytes, 1882 packages) [snip]
If I understand correctly, the thing that slows down dpkg's startup the most is reading those bazillion .list files. 'available' alone probably isn't a very representative test. Christian
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