I'm sorry I don't have more time to comment on this. On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:55:01AM +0100, Justin Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Based on a relational database it will run faster, also there should be > some more data stored about the programs to facilitate system restoring.
Is this really true? I'll freely admit that I have only cursory experience with RDBMSes. However, with the current apt cache code, lookups are basically a pointer dereference (and maybe a page fault). I don't see how an RDBMS could possibly improve on that. There might be other benefits to an RDBMS, but I'm not convinced this is one. One benefit which I didn't see listed in your mail is that it might become easier to augment the cache with more information; a great deal of slowness in aptitude's startup, for instance, comes from reading tables that aren't included in apt's global cache. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
