Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Yes, but there's no need for it to be instant. The only time you'd use > inquisitio is if you're searching for something, in which case it'll > take you longer than a minute to read the output anyway, so a small > amount of latency is irrelevant. >
I use it all the time when I want fast answers. Suppose I see that a package is lagging in keywords and I want to see if it can be marked stable. First step is to see if I happen to already have it installed (I run stable, but I have many unstable packages already installed). Then when GLSAs come along I like to make sure they are installed - sure, there is always paludis --report, but I've found errors in glsas before and I like to see what is going on. > If you want wrong answers very very quickly, cat /dev/urandom instead. > I've found eix to be accurate - especially with the paludis hooks (when it is working). Even in the portage universe I only had to be sure to update it from cron when syncing. Sure, there are times when it falls short and I don't use it on those occasions. However, indexing has been used successfully to make queries faster since probably the 1960s - there is nothing inherently inaccurate about the concept - although individual implementations can have defects. If it weren't for the fact that paludis is already so much faster I'd be suggesting that portage should use mysql or some other database as a backend. _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
