Re: [Fink-devel] Reading Package Info...

2002-03-10 Thread Ben Hines
At 9:18 AM + 3/10/02, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 02:42 AM, Ben Hines wrote: > >>Perhaps an index/database could be implemented for the unstable and >>stable trees, and only the "local" tree should be searched using >>the current method? The "index" could be updated w

Re: [Fink-devel] Reading Package Info...

2002-03-10 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 02:42 AM, Ben Hines wrote: > Perhaps an index/database could be implemented for the unstable and > stable trees, and only the "local" tree should be searched using the > current method? The "index" could be updated when fink is updated, or > when a "selfupdate" i

[Fink-devel] Reading Package Info...

2002-03-09 Thread Ben Hines
Reading package info... is slow with a lot of packages (up to 13 seconds now for me on a Dual800 7200rpm drive, perl parsing 800 info files): Information about 800 packages read in 13 seconds. Perhaps an index/database could be implemented for the unstable and stable trees, and only the "loc