> > Here my proposal on handling disambiguation of package names. > > > > Each package name shall have exactly one directory beneath packages/. > > There's one issue with that: readdir is frickin' slow.
Another database might be able to 'fix' that. > > If there are two packages with the same name, say git from kernel.org > > and git from GNU, then create a directory 'packages/git' and in there > > create 2 subdirectories. Each subdirectory uses one of the > > disambiguation names 'kernel.org' and 'gnu'. > > Two issues: readdir recursively is even slower. Is that also true in the case of: packages/a/abc packages/a/aac packages/l/linux-headers It does divide the list a bit. Regards, Michael Croes _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
