There's a new project called tdpkg which can be used together with dpkg. The tdpkg shared library is used to speed up dpkg .list files loading using either tokyocabinet or sqlite3.
http://lethalman.hostei.com/tdpkg.html -- regards Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
