Did i just made the fastest dependency checker in the world? (198 packages in 1.5 seconds)

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Apr 9 20:55:34 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:46 +0200, Mark wrote:
> Hey.
> 
> is a dependency checking time of 1.5 seconds for 189 packages fast?
> ^_^
> and it can be ALOT faster aswell.
> 
> Page Parsed in: 1.5912721157074 seconds. (mostly php)
> MySQL Parsed in: 0.0009613037109375 seconds. (MySQL only) 
> 

Unless I misread this you're not performing any files-as-dep look ups.
So any time a package requires /foo/bar/baz you have to look that up in
the file listing of each package to see what provides it. this
information isn't listed in the rpm -q --provides output

-sv





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