On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:19, Alberto Mardegan <[email protected]> wrote:
> One more observation -- even though I have no concrete proposals on how to > solve this: usually even developers don't need but a very few packages from > extras-devel, yet the whole list is downloaded. > It would be nice to have a server-side logic, that generates the Packages > file dynamically: the client gives a package name (and optionally a > version), and the web engine generates the Packages file which enables > downloading of this file, it's Depends:, Recommends:, Suggests:, and nothing > else. That would break how apt works, for many of its features. The simplest being that 'apt-cache search' wouldn't work. It would (as you suggest) be relatively easy to fix it so that apt-get install <a package name that you know> works, but at that point you could as well just move over to a web-based download function where the 'install' icon does it all for you. It'll work for simple installs like that, but you lose what's known as 'the power of apt'. -Tor _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
