[arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database

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On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 02:20:30PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> As the currently lead pacman developer...   We will never have a sql (or
> other) database backend.
> 
> When we did tests for the sync backends, using a single tar file gave
> the same speed-up as using some sql variant (and we still have not
> optimised any reading from that - for the sync "dbs", we always load all
> information regardless of what proportion is needed)  I intend to move
> the local db to a single tar file too at some stage.
> 
> Allan

Thanks for clarification. If it achieves the same purpose, i.e. faster
local database access, it doesn't matter which local database backend to
use. Be it sql or single tar file, as long as the performance is
acceptable, I think it's OK.