[pacman-dev] When pacman reads local database files

[lolilolicon]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> What can we conclude from this?
>
> 1) no operation reads a single "desc" file
> 2) -Qo is the only operation to gain from efficient reading of all
> "files" files.  (-Ql may also gain, but is probably output bound)
> 3) having "desc" and "files" files separate and only loading these files
> if we need it is a gain.
> 4) all operations on mtree files require lots of disk access, so there
> is not much gain in increasing the efficiency of reading these.

It's pretty intuitive too,
considering "desc" files cross reference other packages, while "files"
is private to a package.
It makes sense to group or link all "dest" files into a web, while
"files" files are mostly isolated.