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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Say, I notice aptitude is quite slow, e.g.,
...Reading database ... 55%...
Maybe moving the guts to a database like MySQL (in addition to
xapian?) might speed things up.
Hmmm, true, aptitude would no longer work from a bare bones system.
But you'll need apt-get anyway on e.g., cellphones with CPUs too tiny
for comfortable aptitude use.
Or maybe there's some spring cleaning I could do to speed it up?
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2014-02-20 19:09 To [email protected]:
Control: tags 519906 + wontfix
Hi,
There are other bug reports where the speed issues are already
recorded. On the matter of MySQL itself, it would be a bad idea for
several reasons, including Daniel Burrows's and Axel's reasons.
Actually, old and embedded systems lack memory more than CPU, so
adding a half-full RDBMS into the mix would probably hurt performance
even more. (The situation might have been a bit different in 2009, but
still).
And it would be a huge problem to tie aptitude's future to MySQL,
because many people will say "we want a minimal set of dependencies
for important packages, or to have minimal systems (think VMs)". I
suspect that the usage of aptitude would drop significantly if people
see that aptitude needs MySQL to run.
So marking the bug as wontfix at the moment.
Closing the bug for all of the reasons above, and because it doesn't
look any more likely that this is going to be implemented in the next
6.5 years than it was in the previous 6.5 (since it was submitted).
Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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