Question on apt-get update

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 05:40:13PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:19 AM kavitha R <kavitha.r0573 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why do we store the package full description in a different file?
> 
> Possibly because apt was written in 1998 and it seemed like a good
> idea at the time?

Separating out descriptions was in fact done later: it saves a fair
chunk of disk space if you're using multiarch, in which you have (e.g.)
both amd64 and i386 Packages files, but the descriptions are large and
mostly shared between them.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]