[pacman-dev] pacman cold caches performance, too much stat()ing

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> depends files are read in order to ensure that the upgraded package
> won't break any "old" dependencies.
>
> Example: local foo requires bar=2.0 (which is installed)
> Then "pacman -S bar" is not allowed (if bar in sync has different
> version).

I just noticed that local depends are read even when installing a new 
package (not upgrading an old one). Why is this for?


Dimitris