On 06 Jan 2003 06:02:58 -0800
"Alexander Hvostov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps it's high time dpkg received some serious optimization. The
> way in which the package control info is stored and processed is
> horribly inefficient. Here's some suggestions:
> - Rather than storing data for each and every package in the single
> file'/var/lib/dpkg/{status,available}', store each package's data in
> its own file '/var/lib/dpkg/{status,available}/foo'.
How about a compiled database file, with an index? Its not my field but
could read/parsing a text file be the main source of the slowness?
