On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 05:40:13PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:19 AM kavitha R <kavitha.r0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why do we store the package full description in a different file? > > Possibly because apt was written in 1998 and it seemed like a good > idea at the time?
Separating out descriptions was in fact done later: it saves a fair chunk of disk space if you're using multiarch, in which you have (e.g.) both amd64 and i386 Packages files, but the descriptions are large and mostly shared between them. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
