[PEPr] Comment on Tools and Utilities::Linux_Debian_Apt

Pablo Fischer (http://pear.php.net/user/pfischer) has commented on the proposal for Tools and Utilities::Linux_Debian_Apt. Comment: Some answers: - There's a similar perl module that uses backports.org as the database but they do the same, also I think packages.debian.org is more complete than a backport site. - I'll take a look in caching. - It works only for Debian. I'm writing a parser for Packages.gz (information about all packages in a repository) and a Contents.gz (list of files of all packages) but I'm having some doubts about how good is it, cause an official Packages.gz file size is like > 40 MB :-/. And you can imagine reading 40 MB via inet, locally there's a problem with file size but reading a remote file there are two problems.. - I don't know how apt4rpm works, if it works with a Packages.gz and Contents.gz files, then I can add the 'gz' reader/parser. Proposal information: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=268 -- Sent by PEPr, the automatic proposal system at http://pear.php.net