On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Zygmunt Bazyli Krynicki zygmunt.krynicki@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 12:05 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
Out of interest, does anyone know why dpkg/apt never migrated from the "massive sequential text file" approach to something more database-oriented? I've often thought that the current system's scalability has been under pressure for a long time, and that there is potential for substantial improvements in footprint and performance - though the Debian and Ubuntu communities would need to give their support for such an approach, unless we wanted to switch to a different packaging system.
CCed mvo who can probably give some background here. From what I understand it's a long standing wishlist bug with potential to break the world :-P
Michael, if anyone would like to attempt to fix this I'd like to help with the actual dirty work.
ZK
Maybe one to discuss with Debian folks and/or raise at next UDS?