On 10/21/2016 01:20 PM, Alive 4ever wrote: > I was curious why does 'pacman -Q' operations took longer than 'apt' > counterparts. 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. > > For long term pacman development road map, it would be better to use > single sql based database for tracking locally installed packages > instead of keeping directories of every installed packages. > > This would provide faster access for local database as sql databases are > optimized for fast access. The reason pacman uses a flat file database as opposed to a relational database, is the result of a deliberate design decision by the lead pacman developers. Therefore, I really really really doubt you will be able to convince them to change -- they already know all the arguments about speed, and declared that they preferentially value the current lack of complexity. -- Eli Schwartz
