Re: Package Pool Proposal
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu> writes:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Raul Miller wrote:
> > > How about first three characters of package name?
> >
> > Well, let's see what distribution this gives us:
>
> How about the first few characters of the md5sum of the package
> name? Should be well-distributed (although rather unpredictable
> :-)
>
1 character: 16 directories with between 250 to 300 packages each
2 characters: 256 directories with app. 30 packages in.
Seems good to me but we'll need a good index somewhere ;)
OTOH, this will make two versions of the same packages in different
directories... not really good ;)
OTOOH, having an index with md5sums is a Good Thing, IMHO.
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