On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Sivert Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an attempt to add a one-file-per-database backend. The main > reason I wrote this was because load times of the database on my laptop > when it's not yet cached is around 40-50 seconds. When you just want to > do a quick "pacman -Ss" that can be a little annoying. I know you have > discussed the current database vs. one-file earlier, and I think someone > said another backend could be supported too. > > This first patch contains the main database code and a program to > convert .db.tar.gz and file databases into the new format. > > Signed-off-by: Sivert Berg <[email protected]> > ---
What about the disk space usage, compared to a simple tar file? Did you ever consider the idea of reading directly tar.gz or reading/writing directly tar, knowing we already have the libarchive dependency. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
