dpkg remains the primary bottleneck in the setup, and apt calls dpkg anyway, so the different is not really significant, and apt-get update is slow too.
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:50:01PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my > > P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If > > we slow down the installation so much more by using bzip2, then people > > will simply stop upgrading, or switch to other distributions because > > it is so slow. That is not acceptable. > > Um, not all of us are using dselect/dpkg. Most of us refuse to because it's > insanely slow and generally braindead if you have a serious conflict. I use > dselect/apt myself. > [2 <application/pgp-signature>] > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
