Re: Images, apt-get clean and friends

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