Package: dpkg Version: 3:1.10.5 Severity: wishlist I never use dselect anymore, and I don't plan using it again. I do all my updates with apt, or, in rare cases, with dpkg --install. I also use apt-cache for rumagging around for packages, not dpkg --list. Why must I have the 8M /var/lib/dpkg/available file and its evil twin available-old? Can they be made optional somehow, please?
(The status-old file is also fairly useless, but fortunately "only" 1M large). -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux kronstadt 2.4.20 #1 Sun Dec 29 17:36:03 PST 2002 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10 a user tool to manage Debian packages ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
