On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:37:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Apt uses a mixed approach: it uses the same textfiles as dpkg but > > uses a binary cache to also get the advantages of a binary database. > > it does? where?
See /var/cache/apt/*.bin files. An example why is that good is the speed of `apt-cache show foo' compared to non-speed of `dpkg -p foo'. (of course, there are faster things to browse the textual database, they just aren't in dpkg itself) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
