On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Simon Richter wrote:

> 
> Actuallu the slowest thing about dpkg is the database of files. I would be
> cool if dpkg could use some sort of relational database for that.
> 

As long as it is still text-based, so that I can edit it by hand if
neccessary. ;-)


Yust to say: PLEASE do not make it binary. There may be  many things to
speed up, but binary is evil in this situation. (Imagine a broken database
and you can do just nothing against it.)

Hochachtungsvoll,
  Bernhard R. Link
 


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