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Bug 20330

Summary: Use a lightweight DB
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Charles Goodwin <charles.goodwin>
Component: CoreAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: charlie
Priority: High Keywords: InVCS
Version: 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Charles Goodwin 2003-05-02 09:43:08 UTC
Using a lightweight DB with portage, such as the Berkley DB, could give a number
of distinct performance improvements and extra flexibility to portage.

1) Faster searching / indexing of ebuilds
2) Rather than 1 category per application, applications could exist in multiple
categories; eg emerge -s --packages="games,console"

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-07-09 12:37:15 UTC
*** Bug 23374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-07-09 12:38:02 UTC
Bug 23374 makes a good arguement for metakit
Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-15 17:21:36 UTC
Already on the list for later.

See the anydbm module in python.
Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-08 17:55:18 UTC
supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.