On Tuesday 14 November 2006 07:46, Andreas Hanke wrote: > Marcel Hilzinger schrieb: > > The big difference between Suse and Debian/Ubuntu is, that under Suse > > much more data get's fetched. So you can also search within > > package-descriptions etc, whereas under Ubuntu you have only > > package-names and files, but no description e.g. For a more detailed > > search you need apt-file. I think apt-file is compearable to the actual > > suse solution. > > As a starting point, the YaST2 metadata could be compressed. Debian does > that since ever, but YaST2 metadata were never compressed. > > The "packages" file in Factory is currently at 16 MB, a good bzip2 > compression reduces it to 1.8 MB - almost 90% gone. > > I think that this should really be considered first because it is > possible entirely without functionality loss and without complicating > the architecture too much. > ...
Besides compression of metadata, the idea of central server that will contain all details of repositories is appealing because that will substantially simplify package management from user prospective. One preconfigured server to query for detailed information. The problem is, who will host such server, if even link to some repositories can be source of legal trouble. -- Regards, Rajko M. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
