[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add support for .so dependencies

[Florian Pritz]

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Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> 2) Lots more dependencies for packages.  This will slow pacman down.  
>> Also, I believe that provides are slower than depends to resolve.  I 
>> could be completely wrong there... but that would make this even worse.  
>> So it does "hurt" everyone.
> 
> This is a valid point, and we need to investigate how much this will 
> hurt. Still, I would prefer correctness over speed.

I just repackaged 861 packages (everything that was installed and still
in my cache) and timed pacman -U * (1.5gb of data)
time until dependency check finished:
without sodepends = 25 sec
with sodepends = 27 sec

Won't really hurt anyone.

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Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net


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