On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > How much of a performance hit would there really be? If I have this right > in my head (big assumption), the file-lists for all packages are read in in > one go. So all that we would have to do is loop over them checking for the > empty directory before we add it to the removal list. Should be a minimal > impact.... maybe... > > I suppose the best way is to make a patch and see! >
AFAIK the file lists currently do not need to be loaded with -R, so the impact would be loading them more than the checking itself. Then again, we have that cost for all -S operation already, so why not make -R as bad ? :) Anyway we will keep having problems until we have a single file for the local db as well.
