On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:19, Marius Vollmer <[email protected]> wrote: > ext Tor <[email protected]> writes: > >> It'll work for simple installs like that, but you lose what's known as >> 'the power of apt'. > > Not necessarily. You can keep the power of apt even if you only see a > subset of the whole distribution. This is what happens when you have > only "main" in sources.list on a Debian system, and we want to do the > same, just on a much finer grained level.
That sounds good. > The idea is that once you discover a package somehow (regrettably > without help from apt), that package plus all other packages that are > mentioned by it (recursively) become visible to apt. Thus, what you see > is always a consistent subset of the whole distribution, and apt can do > its magic within it. > > Or in other words, discovering packages via apt-cache search or via > debtags is a power of apt that we are willing to sacrifice if you gain > significant better scalability. Sounds like a reasonable compromise. > Users can of course always opt to let apt see the whole distribution. One thing I forgot to mention in the previous message.. /var/cache should never have been on the root filesystem, it must be one of the most obvious candidates for the eMMC as soon as that's feasible. -Tor _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
