Juergen A. Erhard wrote: > For one thing, it would probably (very probably) make dpkg consume a > lot less memory. AFAICT, apt needs to read just as much package info > as dpkg to do its ordering thing... but we all know that it consumes a > lot less memory than dpkg.
Memory use has to do with in-memory data structures, little relevance to talk of what format the data is stored in on disk. Anyway, I don't belive apt has to read in all the file list data, which seems to be the bulk of dpkg's memory use. That data is only of use if you are actually adding/removing files and have to check for files that are both in the same packages, something apt is unaware of. -- see shy jo
