On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 02:21:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > If I had to change something in the Debian package manager, I would > > like it to use bzip2 instead of gzip, but this doesn't need a > > omplete reimplementation. The problem isn't technical, but it's been > > debated many times. I don't exactly know the problem w/ this compression > > except it saves time ;) > > Anyway, if you think something isn't perfect, you can always help the > > development of Dpkg, or apt. > > I think if dpkg used some sort of hashed database index it would be a hell > of a lot nicer to people's CPUs and memory. Whether or not that requires > a re-implemenetation of dpkg or not isn't for me to say since I haven't > looked at dpkg's code in 3 years.
personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets. its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the ability to fix dpkg's broken database with a text editor. if your talking about a different database then nevermind. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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