What specifically are the types of queries that need to be fast? I know of "packages with <substring> in their name that are installable on this system", "packages that have updates available that are installed on this system", "packages that depend on <X>, where <X> is installed on this system," "packages on which <X> depends," and "all packages with security updates." What other queries need to be optimized for pkg(5)? In particular, what is the use case for boolean searches? Does pkg(5) needs to be able to answer full-text searches over package descriptions without contacting the server? If so, why?
Shawn mentioned that disk space usage isn't a concern. I agree that the package server should be able to throw disk space at the problem if necessary. But, a 40MB index is way too big for the client. Regards, Brian _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
