On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > But that doesn't speed up dpkg's -s, -l, -S and -L options (and all the > others that need to read the packages database, of course). That is what > this proposal is about, speeding up dpkg calls. I haven't tried apt yet, > since dselect (with the "mountable" method) still does the job for me. I > wouldn't like to see dselect discontinued.
Hm, these days APT is a replacement for the mountable, ftp and http methods in dselect, it does many more things than any one of the methods alone. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
