On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:01:36 Steve Greenland wrote: > According to James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org>: > > a. open AM > > b. get asked if I want to update package lists. > > c. click to browse installable packages. > > d. wait for update packages (why it just did an update.) > > Actually, the "update" here is updating the soon-to-be-displayed list > of uninstalled packages; it's not re-doing the download of the Packages > files. > > Steve I fully understand what it's doing .... but not why it's doing it. Since the act of doing the first update is the equivalent of "apt-get update" However if you use Adept/Synaptic/dpkg etc the act of the update accumulates all of this information in one act. James
