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