"Martín Ferrari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Packages.gz file is already enormous (especially for Emdebian >> purposes or other low resource units) and adding yet more fields to >> debian/control is really not that friendly. > > I appreciate the strive to make Debian work on small machines, but it > is reasonable to put their constraints on the whole project?
Adding more fields also increases the time to download Packages.gz, which is an issue independent of the capabilities of the machine downloading it. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
