On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Yes, but the binary database could be automatically compiled when > necessary, so main data is in the text one, but then it could be > compiled into the binary one. Look at sendmail configuration... this > is not done automatically, but it works like this. You have simple > text files and you "compile" them later into binary databases. > > For dpkg could be... if the text database is newer than the binary > one, compile it.
I wouldn't have a problem with that actually. Mike