Re: Debian is not a "main distro"?
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 07:45:38PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:42:34PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:49:38PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
> > > Rob Browning <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Steve Dunham <[email protected]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > In addition to the packager apparently being slower, and the
> > > > > unnecessary interaction, many Debian packages do a lot of unnecessary
> > > > > computation: recompiling elisp files 3 or 4 times, recompiling TeX
> > > > > formats, etc.
> >
> > - slower: That will be fixed using binary databases.
>
> binary vs text files for management, another reason why I don't use
> redhat..
IIRC, the binary databases will be used as "cache", and will be
generated from the text ones when needed, the way "apt" does it.
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Enrique Zanardi [email protected]
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