[pacman-dev] A possible way to improve pacman's provision selection

[Xavier]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>
> In this case we should clearly choose dep-ng dependency satisfier,
> because it has an older version installed. Unfortunately "computing all
> satisfiers then choosing" is much slower then "search for literal" (if
> provisions are not needed), so speed is a show-stopper here atm (like
> with FS#15500).
>

What about not trying to workaround backend limitation, and just
improve the code independently of the backend ?

When everyone is enough pissed off by pacman slowness, it would be a
bigger motivation to fix that.