On 01/15/2011 03:14 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > It is not so much having the data in a real database, but not having > it spread over hundreds of small files. This has been largely fixed > in the developmental branch of pacman, which is a lot faster. It > could probably be improved further, but the complaints to patches > ratio is really poor. I would've written a patch for pacman, but these threads[1][2] lead me to believe that the Arch devs weren't interested. The "solution" given was to use a different filesystem (which sounds more like a temporary work-around to me). [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45077 [2] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-January/005521.html
