Re: multiarch support and dpkg 2.0 design document
Matt Wilson <msw@rpath.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:54:18PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>
>> The current dpkg database counts for less than 0.1% of the entire used
>> disk space of a typical Debian system. Even with the new meta-data, I
>> can't see this reaching anything over 0,5% of the entire used disk
>> space; especially as the new features reduce the need for "expensive"
>> maintainer scripts (about 75% of them go away entirely).
>
> I think it makes more sense to measure database size as compared to
> the size of managed files. Conary manages 4.62 GiB on my system. We
> use a sqlite database that's 126 MiB. I have a 60 GB hard drive on my
> system, so that's roughly 0.2%.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
It makes no sense to compare the database size to a typical
system. Typical systems have so much diskspace that they just don't
care anyway.
The problem is with small systems. Your mips router, your arm pda and
so on. With a 256-512MB disk an 126MB databse is quite unacceptable.
Even now dpkg + apt meta data can make up half of the systems
diskspace.
MfG
Goswin
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