> As for the cache. I agree, ideally the consumers shouldn't need to know > that a cache exists. If that's the case though, then we need to invest > time and energy (eventually not saying right this moment) into good > cache management which handles both short and long running processes, > low and high memory conditions, as well as covering the different use > patterns between install, image-update, info, list, possibly search in > the future, etc... I believe we can develop that structure, but it's not > trivial work. Until we have that in place, I'd argue that providing a > switch is better than forcing everyone into the exact same box.
I'm not sure it's safe to make this assumption until we have a better understanding of all the things we're trying to do in evaluate. I've heard some talk of eventually switching to a serializable format that would allow us to perform the evaulation work in chunks, presumably saving state along the way. An approach like this could obviate the need for caching altogether. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
