>-----Original Message----- >From: Oliver Lange > >mathieu perrenoud wrote: >> >> >> I fully agree. But emerge -ep world | grep '-alsa' can hardly be called shell hacking. >> > >Instead of that cryptic shell stuff (i mean in general), I'd like to have the >portage tree and all it's stuff put into a simple SQL database. Then you could >talk to your computer in clear english, like this: > >select name from packages where USE = '-alsa' > >(something like that) > >Doesn't that look pretty easy to learn & bear in mind ? > >This would also reduce the enourmous number of files & dirs on the harddisk. >I just wrote my own updatedb script which excludes /usr/portage and >/var/cache/edb, else each locate command completely floods the shell >line buffer(s) with hits from these two paths.. > >Not to mention the extreme high speed which an SQL database would provide, >compared to qpkg searches thru' the filesys...
Using a SQL DB would increase the data stored on the harddisk. It is also slower than raw file access. The deal breaker is that you don't want to depend on a SQL DB for minimal installs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
