On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Adam Kennedy <a...@ali.as> wrote: > I'll say it a second time... > > Packlist 2.0 > > Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall > it in the usual place as we do now. > > Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files. > > Might seem slow,
A cold «time echo q | instmodsh >/dev/null» takes 22 seconds on my local perl (hot it takes 0.8 seconds). I have no reason to assume the new system would be faster (it might even be slower since it has to parse the data). Not to mention it's trashing your caches. > but on SSDs scanning the filesystem like that is super > super fast. Maybe, but not everyone is using those… Leon
