Brian Smith wrote: > 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. >
Why? The contents file on svr4 packages can get close to that today. It's a fraction of a single firefox coredump. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
