Previously Michal Kosek wrote: > What are advantages of splitting it that way? File with 'fluff' would > be still big, and effective looking for information would need some > indexing. If we create status file for every package, filesystem will > index it for us :)
Which means lots of wasted space on filesystems which don't have support tail packing, ie most filesystems. Having a one or two single files you can parse rapidly is also faster than having to parse hunderds of small files. > Could you also tell why dependencies information should be put > somewhere else than rest? Because most of the time you only need that information and don't want to bother reading the rest. > What do you think about grep-dctrl syntax? Does it lack anything > important? Don't know, haven't looked at it yet. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
