Have you seen swim by Jonathan Rosenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> He is not a developer ( I don't know if he is in the queue) One of the things it does is the equivalent of dpkg -S, but fast (it builds a binary database). He asked me to adopt it at one point, but I didn't want to do it. I don't know exactly how it fits in with apt and dpkg, although I played with it a little.
*Raul Miller wrote: > 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): > -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
