On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:17:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Did aptitude work on this system in past Debian releases?
I use aptitude rarely and only for command-line tests (downloads, simulate installs, compartation with the dependencies-resolving results with apt-get. _Never_ for installing). But I can say that with the transitions woody ---> sarge ---> etch it has become slower and slower (quite a lot solwer on my old hardware). > The only real > memory-hogging change in the program I can think of is the switch to > Unicode a few years ago; Is it possible to locally recompile aptitude without such support, for testing pourposes? > like the increase in the number of packages in the archive and changes in > the toolchain and standard library I suspect that these three reasons are mostly responsable for sloweness (of aptitude and of other packages). Is it possible to compile (for testing pourposes) the current aptitude with dietlibc or uclibc ? With older compilers ? (I recall that some time ago there were somewere in the net a recompilation of a not big but good and self-supporting part of woody with dietlibc, with only few patches to the source packages) Are there somewere merory and speed comparation tests for the various releases of GNU glibc and gcc ? -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
