Hello,
1) The current debtags update system is bad, and needs that obnoxious
apt-index-watcher that we all hate
2) I personally and deeply hate the fetcher API in libapt-pkg
So, this is a draft of a new system:
1. Define source directories as directory where tag databases and
vocabularies can be found. Allow to have more than one, and
especially allow users to have their own ones.
2. Have separate tools to keep the source directories updated, by
fetching files from the internet, generating things locally or
whatever else people will like.
3. Keep an index in /var/lib/debtags, but read instead an index in
~/.debtags if there are user changes
4. When the library is initialised, check if there are newer files in
the sources directory, and if yes, rebuild the index. If it's
running as root, rebuild the central index, otherwise rebuild the
user index.
5. No maintaining a separate patch anymore: PatchedCollection is slow.
Instead, save the modified index in the home directory, and extract
patches by diffing against the database in /var/lib.
I put it down in the mail to clear my mind a bit about it. Now I'll see
if I can implement it.
Ciao,
Enrico
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