Re: DPKG

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Christian Lavoie wrote:
  >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but 
  >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like 
  >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? 

Because a database has to be set up, as well as taking a significant
amount of space that simply isn't available on the installation floppies.

dselect/apt has to work as soon as the base system is installed.  If you 
introduce a complex product like a RDBMS, there's just too much extra
that can go wrong.


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