Re: dpkg and sqlite redux

2007-04-16 Thread Ian Jackson
sean finney writes ("dpkg and sqlite redux"): > something like sqlite would give the benefit of not only a smarter way > of storing the data but also it would lower the complexity of the > datastructures needed to work with the data, since much of the overhead > could be

Re: dpkg and sqlite redux

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070414 00:37]: > - i'm not advocating sqlite necessarily, but some db library. and not even > some db library as much as a smarter way of storing information to begin > with, > though some db's do provide advantages (query syntaxes, etc) > - i'm also suggest

dpkg and sqlite redux

2007-04-13 Thread sean finney
hi folks, sorry for breaking the thread, but i'm not subscribed and i wasn't cc'd, and my current MUA sucks. > from ian: > Well, I don't know if I still count as one of the `dpkg team' but I > think this is a terrible idea for lots of reasons. dpkg needs to be > very reliable; its databases mus