Previously Erik Troan wrote: > The database format you propose will be extremely slow btw. I know that > Red Hat, and I'm sure that Debian, spend an inordinate amount of timing > on their database design to make sure tha t large package transactions > run as quickly as possible. Actually we spent a lot of time making sure that our database will be consistent no matter what happens (powerdown in the middle of an installation, disk errors, etc.). Optimizing for speed was less important (still is imho). Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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