[pacman-dev] [PATCH] alpm_checkdeps clean-up <- some notes

[Xavier]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:43:21AM +0100, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Some notes:
> 2.
> +		alpm_list_t *modified = alpm_list_diff(_alpm_db_get_pkgcache(db), dblist, _alpm_pkg_cmp);
> I would prefer "intersect(dbcache, joined)", because usually joined
> is a smaller list than dblist, but we have no such function.
> 3.
> alpm_list_diff is quite fast (n+m), but it needs to order lists first
> O(nlogn)+O(mlogm); however dbcache is initially(?) ordered.
> Note: We had some alpm_list problems nowadays, after this patch
> alpm_list_diff function becomes crucial...
> 

Slightly off-topic, but a note related to list_diff and list_intersect
function : fileconflicts have apparently its own functions
(check_filedifference and check_fileconflicts).
I wonder if these could be replaced to use generic list functions instead.