>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> (as it stands, things like `dpkg --search /etc/passwd'
Anthony> results in `dpkg: /etc/passwd not found.' Personally I
Anthony> consider this alone a little disconcerting)
... and it takes forever and a day of disk ggzztting to give you the
result too. I will be glad when the contents of some future and
quick database have been worked out, and that database gets built.
`dpkg' could be as fast as `rpm' then.
SQL? DB? NoSQL? What? How?
How will the Debian GNU/Linux "registry" database work? What will go
in it? What will be its interface? Will I be able to back up the
conffiles and extrafiles as simply as I do now?
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