On 1/15/13 3:54 PM, Cook, Rich wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> >> To answer your question 1) a bit: how can a package manager (computer) know >> what is contained in a package that's neither installed on nor downloaded to >> this computer? >> > > The computer knows what packages are not installed or downloaded to the > computer. How does it do that? By consulting a central database. The > central database could contain the installed contents of each package as > well. In today's world, the resources and bandwidth for such a list would > not be an unreasonable cost for the benefit in my opinion. > >
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