From what I've seen during package and patch installs, the vast majority of shared components seem to be directories. Based on that, perhaps a 'directories' contents file and a 'files' contents file?
On Dec 15, 2006, at 1:16 AM, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >> You bring up a good point -- if the shared components and files were >> separated, would performance benefit? > > How can you tell if something is shared? Things can easily > move from unshared to shared and vice versa. > > And all package installs will still need to check all > packages. > > Casper ----- Gregory Shaw, IT Architect Phone: (303) 673-8273 Fax: (303) 673-2773 ITCTO Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. 500 Eldorado Blvd, UBRM02-157 greg.shaw at sun.com (work) Broomfield, CO 80021 shaw at fmsoft.com (home) "When Microsoft writes an application for Linux, I've Won." - Linus Torvalds -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20061219/77c4bd8d/attachment.html>
