[maemo-developers] Icons are just a few bytes, right ?

[From: Alberto Mardegan]

Attila Csipa wrote:
> Okay, big, but there are 3000+ user packages. But, how about we strip the... 
> icons ? A quick and dirty grep -v gives a rough:
[...]

That would help, +1!

One more observation -- even though I have no concrete proposals on how to solve 
this: usually even developers don't need but a very few packages from 
extras-devel, yet the whole list is downloaded.
It would be nice to have a server-side logic, that generates the Packages file 
dynamically: the client gives a package name (and optionally a version), and the 
web engine generates the Packages file which enables downloading of this file, 
it's Depends:, Recommends:, Suggests:, and nothing else.

I don't know much about APT, maybe something of this kind exists already?

Ciao,
   Alberto

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