Zhukov Pavel wrote: It's a package manager. Why does it have to be lightning fast? It takes care of packaging and does a great job at it (IMO).
(...) It's a package manager, why does it have to be fast? A while back I was poking about plans for a conservative/stable branch. Since then I was enlightened, and don't want a stable branch. I totally agree with you except for these parts. Yes pacman is a package manager, and yes it does great job at it. But being lightning fast is good for any application. Of course, that doesn't mean to sacrifice anything in the sake of speed, but it is a factor to consider when developing it. It's not the number one requirement, but it never is. However, I really wouldn't like pacman to take 20 minutes to check dependencies. I don't mind when it takes 20 seconds, but I'd really appreciate that it'd take 1 second. Regards, Colin
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