Re: YADW (Yeat another dpkg wishlist)
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> I was told that 'unpack' followed by 'configure' was equivalent to
> 'install'. If this isn't true then what's the difference?
Yes, the end result is the same either way.
You misunderstood what I meant by overhead. Every time you invoke
dpkg, it reads the database in. That takes time. Invoking dpkg once
with 10 packages is thus faster than invoking it 10 times with one
package.
Guy
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