Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:42:44
Message-Id: 1087166706.2974.5.camel@newkid.milsson.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage doc & cache by Jeff Smelser
1 On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 18:46, Jeff Smelser wrote:
2 > We have been testing this out. This would be a great addition..
3 >
4 > http://oneofone.limitlessfx.com/phpwiki/index.php/temp/portage_db_mysql.py
5
6 As mentioned before, sqlite seems like it would be a better fit.
7
8 Selected features (from their site):
9 * Zero-configuration - no setup or administration needed.
10 * A complete database is stored in a single disk file.
11 * Database files can be freely shared between machines with
12 different byte orders.
13 * Supports databases up to 2 terabytes (2^41 bytes) in size.
14 * Small memory footprint: less than 30K lines of C code, less than
15 250KB code space (gcc on i486)
16 * Faster than other popular database engines for most common
17 operations.
18 * Self-contained: no external dependencies.
19
20 -John

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