On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 12:05 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > Out of interest, does anyone know why dpkg/apt never migrated > from the > "massive sequential text file" approach to something more > database-oriented? I've often thought that the current > system's > scalability has been under pressure for a long time, and that > there is > potential for substantial improvements in footprint and > performance - > though the Debian and Ubuntu communities would need to give > their > support for such an approach, unless we wanted to switch to a > different packaging system. > > > > CCed mvo who can probably give some background here. From what I > understand it's a long standing wishlist bug with potential to break > the world :-P
Michael, if anyone would like to attempt to fix this I'd like to help with the actual dirty work. ZK
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