[Debtags-devel] libdebtags and the new package file

[Enrico Zini]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:47:15PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:

> currently libdebtags uses the data fetched via "debtags update" as
> source of information about the tags for the packages. I was wondering
> if this will change now, after the tags data was included in the package
> file. 
> For me this is important to know, because parsing the package file
> requires a significant amount of time.

To be honest, I still don't know.  Maybe I'll add a special tag source
called 'apt', and I'll use it during 'debtags update'.

You should not be bothered by it in any way, though: the new libdebtags1
generates a binary index at update time, and it uses that for fast
access to the data.

Wether I'll read data from apt or not, I do want to keep generating the
index, as it allows me to do the merging of different sources, which is
a very important feature to me.


Ciao,

Enrico

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