[pacman-dev] Pacman, sqlite and dialectic of competent people

[Manuel "ekerazha" C.]

> I think this was discussed many times here, why we prefer the current backend:
> Simply because we are paranoid; we afraid of the following "message":
> "~Database is corrupted, restore it from backup", and we got a cryptic bunch of
> bytes as database.
> Saying not competent just because he doesn't agree with you is not a good
> argument. Well, probably we are not dbms experts, so instead of flaming you
> should convince us, why using your method is safe.
>  
> I add one argument here: maybe using a professional dbms would reduce memory
> usage; but I am incompenent here, indeed ;-)

Did you read the bbs thread I linked before? ;-)
( http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42374 )