On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 17:20:53 +0000, Alive 4ever wrote: > [...] It seems that the local pacman databases are just subdirectories > with text files (desc, files) and gzipped text (mtree). > No wonder why local pacman databases tend to slow down over time and > need to be optimized periodically. This is a little contradictory: if it is just directories with text files (plain or compressed), how does it need "periodical optimisation"? What is optimised? And how? > This would provide faster access for local database as sql databases > are optimized for fast access. This just adds complexity, and for what? Marginal performance gain (if at all? honestly, `pacman -Q` runs almost instantly here). Best, Tinu/ayekat
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