On 07/16/03 Christopher Egner wrote: > But have you noticed the time it takes to search already. With longer > descriptions, its not gonna get quicker... I know you didn't mention > that, but still.
You might check out this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=66765 > I'm not sure how portage stores data. It doesn't seem efficient > however with the speed of queries. My thought would be to implement a > mini-db. However, I don't know that this would really solve things > (it'd be nice and easy to maintain...). I can't say that any database > would necessarily save much time on searches. > > I do like the idea of more descriptive entries, however, I feel that > this would unnecessarily bog down portage. This is adressed by metadata.xml, coming soon. > Ultimately, we may need a revamp of the internals for portage, but > since I haven't had the chance to see what makes it tick, I couldn't > tell you. I believe the dev guys have their reasons for not making it > a db, but I can't recall if they said why. Time to make plans for portage3 ? Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
