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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:38:25AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> +1. BDB is quite easy to corrupt...

If we're going to use a binary file format, please consider using SQLite
instead. It has the right license, a nice API (transactions!) and is robust
enough for yum to use it for a similar purpose.

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com