On Monday 17 December 2007 16:14:24 Raphael wrote: > Hey, I made someone laugh today. Good deed of the day: check! :P
:) > I was unaware of Paludis. Re-reading the thread now, I saw that > someone mentioned it. After googling for it, seems a lot of people are > fond of it. Why is it not the default package manager yet? It's not my decision so I'm not going to answer this. I can, however, say that Paludis still lacks a couple of features that Portage has (most notably binary package support and pkg/slot-move support). > As for the second part, yes, using a database wouldn't get rid of the > I/O problem, but could diminish it, since database data isn't spread > across several directories and files. And I'm not proposing to store > the entire ebuild within, but a representation of it that could be > easily queried. Which would add an awful lot of complexity and require major design changes in order to gain anything. The beauty of the ebuild format is its simplicity. I don't really think it's worth it. -- Bo Andresen
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