On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> thousands and thousands of packages will eat time. You have to traverse
> them to find a resolution.
>
> I'm open to suggestions for how to not traverse the packages.
Perhaps I did not understand the question about traversing,
but I'd build a hash with correspondences:
key:"feature provided" --> value:"list of packages that provide it"
foe all available packages.
This hash would then be interrogated to find suitable candidates
for a dependency, when the need arises. But I suspect this
is already implemented and it's still slow... :)
Mihai
