* Ethan Benson | personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets. | its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and | yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the | ability to fix dpkg's broken database with a text editor.
semi-intelligent caching where you check if the text file is newer than the binary file, if so, you use the text file and write a binary copy to the binary file. Else, you just load the binary. Something screws up? Delete the binary file. Make a conffile somewhere so one can choose to use just text, if one has serious size constraints. Saves speed, not very hard to implement (without me having looked at dpkg's code). -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.