Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *.list handling is way inefficient. It is faster for me to grep the .list > files, then for me to do dpkg -S. And that is on a celeron 300/256m.
I agree that this is an issue. I frequently find that I can do dpkg -S *then* start up another window and manually type out a similar line involving grep /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list and have the grep complete before the dpkg -S completes. The machine I'm using at the moment is too fast for this, but the difference is still signficant (~20x): $ time grep dselect /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.list:/usr/bin/dselect /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.list:/usr/man/man8/dselect.8.gz real 0m0.059s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.040s $ time dpkg -S dselect dpkg: /usr/bin/dselect dpkg: /usr/man/man8/dselect.8.gz real 0m1.262s user 0m1.090s sys 0m0.100s $ -- Raul
