It's a good idea. Please don't use gdbm. It's performance is not good. For a simple and lightweight hash db, you can consider tdb, which is used by samba. If you want more advanced query, then sqlite is the best choice IMO. A nice idea is using locale specific cache since most parts of of a desktop entry file are just translations. In addition, the cache should be system-wide rather than user-specific since all users share the same repo. So a hook triggered after installation of app-install package is the best to regenerate the cache.
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Stefano <[email protected]> wrote: > i was thinking about the use of a database, re-builded every time the > cache update or upgrade, this because parse the contents of a > directory(/usr/share/app-install/desktop) is very slow, so we can build > the database parsing the directory only the first time, then parse the > database to get the packages faster. we can also add an option in the > edit menu, to re-build the database, called "Force packages list > upgrade" or something similar. > > let me know what you think. > > Stephen Smally > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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