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Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default
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In message: <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com>
            Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> writes:
: 
: On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:
: 
: > On 15 Aug 2010, at 3:12, Doug Barton wrote:
: > 
: >> (And before anyone bothers to reply saying "Use pkg_info -O for that"
: >> I'll save you the trouble. My version is from 10-20% faster. Not sure
: >> why, don't really care.) :)
: > 
: > 
: > Congrats for beating the performance of a(nother) utility in base, but - regardless of whether you'd use it in that case - doesn't that just indicate that pkg_info could use some performance improvements as well?
: 
: http://libpkg.googlecode.com/
: 
: This is David Forsyth's GSoC project to build a standard library
: for managing the on-disk package database.
: 
: His pkg_info implementation built on this library is in fact
: a lot faster than what's currently in the tree.  He's starting
: to prototype pkg_delete and pkg_add on the new library
: but there's still a lot of work to do.

heh, maybe he needs to do work on an upgrader too. :)

Warner