Dear list... what has always annoyed me is now ready to be asked on this list. :) It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database of installed packages is terribly slow at times. I have roughly 1800 packages installed and it sometimes takes 20-30 seconds to install a single package. On a freshly installed system that's just a matter of seconds. Since this is one of my two development workstations I uninstall and install a lot of packages and dist-upgrade to unstable/experimental daily. So the package database is in permanent flux. What might be the cause? Is there some fragmentation effect? This is a common effect on a few Debian systems here so I assume I'm not alone with it. Has anyone else observed that? Is there a way to optimize it?
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