Re: Re: multiarch support and dpkg 2.0 design document

[Matt Wilson <msw@rpath.com>]

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
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Matt Wilson
Founding Engineer
rPath, Inc.
msw@rpath.com