--- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "AH" == Alexander Hvostov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AH> That should be a good start. Anyone care to > comment? > > Yes. > > I'm no genius, but even to a dunderhead like me, it > seems like the > Debian package mechanism is getting quite creaky > with age. Something > that scaled well for a package catalog in the > hundreds does terribly for > package catalogs in the tens of thousands. For > example: > > * Loading package catalogs takes a long time > on loaded or > low-memory machines. > > * Browsing package catalogs for useful > packages is practically > impossible. > > It seems like we need a revamp of the Debian catalog > and package > format to allow at least the following: > > * Sub-architectures. Allow some binary > packages that are > CPU-bound to be optimized for particular > chips. For example, > a Pentium II computer might be able to > install packages > tagged for the i386/i686 architecture, the > i386/i586 > architecture, and the i386 architecture. > > * Multiple versions of the same package. > Instead of having 10 > jillion python2.2, python2.1, and > python1.5 library > packages, allow multiple binaries tagged > with the > appropriate version. > > * Hierarchical categories. We have <10 > categories of software > in the Debian system right now. This is > just laughable. We > need to be able to tag packages according > to real useful > categories, like > "Network/Internet/Clients/Chat/IRC" or > "Libraries/DataFormat/XML/Parser". This > should make browsing > for appropriate software a lot easier than > "apt-cache search > irc" or "apt-cache search xml". > > * Optimizations of the catalog as stored at > the leaf node > machine. > > My main comment is this: where does this discussion > go on? On > debian-devel? -private? Who do I talk to to get > Debian working better > for me. > > ~ESP
Nice to read you, Evan. I don't know, but if we want to take a capitulation position or not (to the juggernaut) I do think XML does adequately describe data. I hear so often... disk is cheap memory is cheap $60 billion dollars, at #!perl '*' x 15 least, and the freaking morons run on less porsche boxsters? Don't say you didn't hear it hear first. -jsn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
