Re: [aur-general] metadata file/database of AUR?

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:46:34 -0500 Daenyth Blank wrote:

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:22, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

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It would make more sense to expand upon the RPC and use a client which caches. Initially any queries might be slower, but the second time they would be just as fast, without the overhead of downloading _all_ packages..

+1

wtf was i thinking 20k packages, say 100 bytes each -> 2GB of metadata caching would be a much better idea indeed! and initial queries wouldn't be noticeably slower. writing a few hundred bytes to a filesystem is nothing compared to doing http requests. i guess most is said now, we should just get in touch with the guys who develop our favorite aur frontends. /me off to celebrate 2k10 Dieter