Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/3] Merge desc and depends files in local db

On 30/10/10 16:03, Allan McRae wrote:

Whenever depends is needed from the local db, so is desc. The only disadvantage to merging them is the additional time taken to read the depends entries when they are not needed. As depends is in general relatively small, the additional time taken to read it in will be negligable. Also, merging these files will speed up local database access due to less file seeks.

Of course this is going to need a nice post_install script for the next major pacman release... or now for those of us using the git version once this is pushed. I'm testing one out now. Allan