21 Oct
2016
21 Oct
'16
6:03 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 17:20:53 +0000, Alive 4ever wrote:
[...] It seems that the local pacman databases are just subdirectories with text files (desc, files) and gzipped text (mtree). No wonder why local pacman databases tend to slow down over time and need to be optimized periodically. This is a little contradictory: if it is just directories with text files (plain or compressed), how does it need "periodical optimisation"? What is optimised? And how?
This would provide faster access for local database as sql databases are optimized for fast access. This just adds complexity, and for what? Marginal performance gain (if at all? honestly, `pacman -Q` runs almost instantly here).
Best, Tinu/ayekat