On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:01:36 Steve Greenland wrote:
> According to James Sparenberg  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >     a.  open AM
> >     b.  get asked if I want to update package lists.
> >     c.  click to browse installable packages.
> >     d.  wait for update packages (why it just did an update.)
>
> Actually, the "update" here is updating the soon-to-be-displayed list
> of uninstalled packages; it's not re-doing the download of the Packages
> files.
>
> Steve

I fully understand what it's doing .... but not why it's doing it.  Since the 
act of doing the first update is the equivalent of "apt-get update"  However 
if you use Adept/Synaptic/dpkg etc the act of the update accumulates all of 
this information in one act.  

James
_______________________________________________
maemo-users mailing list
maemo-users@maemo.org
https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Reply via email to