On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:50:38 +0100
Bernd Steinhauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why not just split it?
> First 50 packages in x/, then the next 50 in x2/ etc.
> Of course that isn't the nicest way to find a package, but it
> wouldn't require more time to find something than using the last
> letter.

Because then, depending upon what you mean by 'first 50', either Paludis
has to hunt around in every single directory to find something, or if
you add a new package called, say, xaa, you have to move a bunch of
other packages because you've changed what the first 50 is.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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