Re: YADW (Yeat another dpkg wishlist)

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 14 Oct 1997, Guy Maor wrote:

> 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.
> 
Yes, I clearly did misunderstand. Doesn't dpkg already accept multiple
packages on the command line, and install them in the order presented? Is
the limit here based on command line buffer size, or number of option
values allowed?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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