Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

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.

Tim