On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 09:29, seth vidal wrote: > yes. there is. You have the metadata in one set of files and the > complete file lists for that 5% of packages that have a file requires > that is not a file caught by the wildcards *bin/*, /etc/* or > /usr/lib/sendmail. the above should end with: in another file that you only download when needed. -sv