On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:28:31AM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
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> What you urge to do is to cut down the price even more.  But there is
> clearly something wrong with apt, as it tries to resolve every single
> dependency upon every startup.  And, fortunately, it takes only a few
> seconds!

It will take twice or trice longer time when _all_ packages with ELF
files will get their set-versioned dependencies, so I expect apt-get
startup will eventually be about 10x slower again (compared to 5.1 branch).

apt-rpm indeed calls rpmRangesOverlap() too many times, it's common
knowledge.  Unfortunately, stating this fact isn't sufficient to make
apt-rpm work faster.


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