On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:48:58 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On 10.x it did take a long time to check for updates and would bury the
>> processor as well.  My experience with it in 11.0 has been pretty good
>> -
> 
> Good to know.
> 
>> I do wish they differentiated between a read-only access to the
>> database, though, so you could launch package management while it was
>> checking for updates.  It's a database, after all, it should be capable
>> of allowing multiple processes to access it for read-only access.
> 
> The linux file system isn't transactional, so you can't really work it
> that way. It isn't a database - it's a bunch of files, at least as I
> understand it.

Yes, but the information for RPM is stored in a database - or rather a 
series of databases - implemented using Berkeley DB (on my system, 
version 8).

>>>> thing is, Mono wasn't ready for prime time yet,
>>> This is a complaint? ;-)
>> Well, like I said below:
> 
> That was unwarranted sarcasm, as in "isn't all of Linux not ready for
> prime time?" :-)

Oh, I see.  Thhhhpt. ;-)

Jim

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