Brock Pytlik wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:59:32PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
Help me understand the use case for frequent local search that I'm
not seeing... Once the software is installed on your machine, why
are you searching for it? I can see doing this once in a great
while because the binary didn't get delivered into a directory
that's in your path, and so you have to figure out where the silly
thing actually got placed. Since I've been running OpenSolaris, I
think I've done that a handful of times. Other than that, I can't
think of use cases for most of our users.
One case that comes to mind: you have a file name and would like to work
backwards to find its package.
-j
Again, maybe I'm being dense, but that's a common usage for an end
user who (probably) isn't packaging their own software? I'm not saying
we should blow up local search, just trying to justify my claim that
it's rarely used outside of packagers of software.
I would say it is.
I quite often check to what package a given file belongs so I can
install the package on other server.
As someone else mentioned grep XXX /var/sadm/install/contents is very
common operation on older Solaris releases - at least from my experience.
While with current pkg it takes several seconds to come back with an
answer which is way slower than for example rpm it is still fine with
me. However it looks like that after Shawn integrates his changes the
performance should be much better.
--
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com
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