On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joe Moore wrote: > Adam Heath said: > > Brainstorming: There could be a bootup script that builds a cache of > > some sort, that contains the list of runtime features that are > > available. This could be based on the kernel and cpu. apt and dpkg > > could then read this cache. > > Perhaps at "apt-get update" time? Apt is already doing time-intensive work > (unless you are on a _very_ fast link to your mirror), building an on-disk > datastructure while parsing the Packages file shouldn't be that much more > time. Add in a config option to not automatically update the cache, and a > --force-cache-update that the user can run occasionally if they want. > > IANAdpkgDeveloper, so I might be misunderstanding the problem.
The problem is that the hardware/kernel can change between apt-get update runs.
