On 2026-05-23, Petre Rodan <[email protected]> wrote: > just wondering, with all due respect, were there any plans in the past to > borrow the pkg application from FreeBSD?
no. > why? the difference in speed would come from calculating the package version > delta from a downloaded sqlite database instead of connecting to the mirrors > for every single dependency of every single package. on a system with many > packages and not stellar internet that would give at least an order of > magnitude boost to the pkg upgrade process. $ pkg_info updatedb Information for inst:updatedb-0p0 Comment: pkg_add speed up cache Required by: quirks-7.194 Description: locate(1) cache for pkg_add(1) updates. installed automatically as a dependency of quirks Maintainer: Marc Espie <[email protected]> > also not depending on an interpreted language would be a bonus if you ask me. and others might prefer an interpreted language (that's in base and available on all openbsd platforms) to something like C for this type of application. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
