Gregory Shaw writes:
> Would it be practical to break the contents file into an index of the  
> packages, and a for each package name?

We've been over that ground as well.

The contents file is currently a documented part of the system (see
contents(4)), and, more importantly, there are applications that have
come to depend on it.

Without that, yes, you can break up the file, as long as you figure
out some reasonable way to handle shared components (such as
directories).  As Dave said, there are likely other things that need
to be addressed.

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