Hi,
>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wichert> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
Wichert> Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Actuall, maybe we should reconsider even that. The ast time I
>> updated apt, 2200+ packages were updated. Having them in a flat
>> folder is not likely to help browsing (heck, even a simple ls in
>> /usr/doc takes perceptible time).
Wichert> [pc135a;/usr/doc]-8> time ls > /dev/null
Wichert> 0.000u 0.010s 0:00.01 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 93pf+0w
Wichert> (Okay, maybe not everyone has a pII on his desk. It'll probably be
Wichert> slower on my homesystem too)
You started it ;-)
__> time ls -asCF /usr/doc
real 0m16.590s
user 0m0.160s
sys 0m0.760s
16 seconds is perceptible time.
>> I think that flat databases are not really scalable.
Wichert> This database is getting more and more complicated, although
Wichert> it should not be that hard to make a good fast
Wichert> implementation. We're bound to have some database-experts
Wichert> amongst us.
People like to browse through directory structures. File
systems. Web paages. But suddenly present them with a node with
several thousand brnaches, and you have lost them.
As I said, we should design for tomorrow. Not to the
constrains of yesterdays technology ;-). I think that adding
logical structure to the list of packages is desirable.
manoj
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