[Aptitude-devel] Bug#519906: aptitude: use a database like MySQL to speed things up

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags 519906 + wontfix

Hi,

There are other bug reports where the speed issues are already
recorded.  On the matter of MySQL itself, it would be a bad idea for
several reasons, including Daniel Burrows's and Axel's reasons.

Actually, old and embedded systems lack memory more than CPU, so
adding a half-full RDBMS into the mix would probably hurt performance
even more. (The situation might have been a bit different in 2009, but
still).

And it would be a huge problem to tie aptitude's future to MySQL,
because many people will say "we want a minimal set of dependencies
for important packages, or to have minimal systems (think VMs)".  I
suspect that the usage of aptitude would drop significantly if people
see that aptitude needs MySQL to run.

So marking the bug as wontfix at the moment.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>