jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Maybe moving the guts to a database like MySQL (in addition to
> xapian?) might speed things up.
Please don't!
It was already annoying and painful enough to have kdepim/akonadi to
pull in a MySQL server on every desktop/workstation with KDE in
Squeeze. (Luckily they fixed that for Wheezy and now allow to choose
at least SQLite instead.)
I don't want to have to install a MySQL server on all my boxes
including netbooks and embedded systems just to be able to use a
curses based package manager!
> Hmmm, true, aptitude would no longer work from a bare bones system.
Another good point.
> But you'll need apt-get anyway
.oO( Because the apt package is essential... )
> on e.g., cellphones with CPUs too tiny for comfortable aptitude use.
Depends. Used aptitude on the OpenMoko. WFM.
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I don't know anything about this stuff but Subversion 1.6 uses now sqlite
> > which can be provided by a single header file IIRC.
>
> SQL databases aren't a panacea. I did a little experimentation a few
> months ago with building an sqlite database containing some of the core
> apt information. It took ages to build and was too slow for practical
> use. (IMO)
Additionally, with SQLite you have to take special measures if you
want to backup them properly -- as with MySQL, too. I don't think it's
a good idea to burden that on every admin who just wants to use
aptitude.
Regards, Axel
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