On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > I think if dpkg used some sort of hashed database index it would be a hell > > of a lot nicer to people's CPUs and memory. Whether or not that requires > > a re-implemenetation of dpkg or not isn't for me to say since I haven't > > looked at dpkg's code in 3 years. > > That smells like "re-write". The scent of painstaking coding. Mmmm.
This is perfectly doable, and on my todo for dpkg 1.9. ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO-----
