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Re: Package Pool Proposal



Anthony Towns wrote:
> FWIW, splitting on the last two characters gives you a maximum of 320 or
> so collisions (ev for -dev, and oc for -doc, I guess), whereas splitting
> on the first two characters gives a maximum of 617 collisions (li for lib).
> [0] Just splitting on the first characters gives 732 collisions.

Why not split on the first and last characters concatenated?  Since most
packages have either `common' suffix or a common prefix, but not both,
this might yield nice numbers... (but I don't have a debian system handy
to test my theory).

-Miles
-- 
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.  Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.  At night the ice weasels come.  --Nietzsche


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