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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why not move Apt to a relational database
From:       Wouter Verhelst <wouter () debian ! org>
Date:       2007-06-04 0:23:54
Message-ID: 20070604002354.GI23796 () grep ! be
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:22:46PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> Justin Emmanuel wrote:
> > I am brand new to this mailing list, I joined it because I had an idea
> > that I would like to have considered. Moving apt to a relational
> > database, for several reasons.
> 
> Before reading on, have you considered the following:
> 
>  - using an RDB requires a running RDBMS
>  - running an RDBMS requires memory and cpu usage
>  - in case of an upgrade RDBMSs often dump there databases and import
>    them.  What will happen when the upgrade fails during this?  No
>    package database would be really bad

Not so with sqlite (although perhaps the second point might be).

>  - copying parts of the database to another system, or patching it
>    is not as easy as it is with plain files

That, however, most certainly is true. 

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