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Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database



On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:31:18AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:55:01 +0100
> Justin Emmanuel <justinemmanuel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Based on a relational database it will run faster, also there should be
> > some more data stored about the programs to facilitate system restoring.
> 
> That doesn't justify adding 10-20Mb of extra code to a rootfs -

Eh, please run 'apt-cache show libsqlite3-0 | grep Installed-Size'
before making that assertion.

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