On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:42:05PM +0100, Ulrik Sverdrup
was heard to say:
> Stracing the two commands it's obvious that they differ in the amount of
> wor they do. Among other things, aptitude seems to read the whole of the
> file
> '/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.ch.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2
Severity: normal
Using aptitude to get information about packages is very slow, and can
often take 3-5 seconds, for example the call:
aptitude show python-twisted
Compare this to
apt-cache show python-twisted
which is in practice instant here.
Straci
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