On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:44:48 -0500 Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You should be using paludis --query, not inquisitio, for that. paludis --query *is* fast (especially if you use names cache). Which brings me back to my original point: there's no need for inquisitio to provide near-instant results. > 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. Using a database as a backend won't have any effect upon speed. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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