Michael Jennings
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:01:42 -0700
On Friday, 08 June 2007, at 17:55:04 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: > You mean like dpkg does?
I don't know how dpkg does its stuff. :) > Nothing. But performance, not locking, is the key issue for choosing > a representation of the installed package set. What about as an alternative representation, kinda like what you did, only on a grander (and crazier scale)? Imagine rpmd, a user-space daemon which maintains a pseudo-filesystem (a la /proc or /sys) interface to the rpmdb. Client programs could use rpmdb via rpmlib or the pseudofilesystem, either way. The former for performance, the latter for portability and ease of development/rapid prototyping. And you thought your del.icio.us idea was nutty. ;-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "If God is for us, who can be against us? No power on Earth Can take His love away." -- DeGarmo and Key ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org