The package database stores metadata about every package ever analyzed with checkpkg. Only a small fraction of built and checked packages make it into catalogs, which means that there is a boatload of packages which are in the database, but aren't used.
I wrote a script to find and delete unused packages: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/19788 There were about 80k packages (defined as SVR4 .pkg files), of which only 16.5k are actually used in catalogs (since the stable and current catalogs are now dropped from the database). Before garbage collection, the compressed database dump had 815MB, and now it has 150MB. I'm guessing that the size reduction will also have performance benefits. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
