Ben Collins wrote: > > > > IMO, about the only way to > > > get real speedup is for all of this data to be in a hashed database, > > > on disk, so all dpkg has to do is open the database and verify files. > > > The hash will already be avaiable. However, there are probably some > > > caveats to this. > > > > Well another useful optimization would be to not read the available file > > at all if nothing it is going to do involves the available file. > > > > I've just zeroed mine out, sigh. > > Some of the installs change what is in the available file. However, we > do need to get rid of it somehow. Dselect holds us back again... > > Wichert, any plans on how to deintegrate dselect from dpkg? Maybe a > dpkg-available tool that dpkg can start calling when it needs to? >
What does apt do for its equivalent to the available file ? Glenn
