[indiana-discuss] package manager's performance

["C. Bergström"]

Harry Fu wrote:
> Hi, there:
>
> I'm going to present a demo of OpenSolaris's package manager to university audience.
> But I found that its performance is really bad, especially when compared with other package managing tools on Linux.
> Although I set up a local repository on the localhost, it still takes long time to load the repository information
> and to install/upgrade packages. I feel the response time is not acceptable for a public demo.
> I'm wondering if there are some tuning tips that may help to improve the performance?
>   
I think you might have better luck on pkg-discuss (or freenode #pkg5 
depending on the time of day)  As best I can tell the slow performance 
is a feature based on their design choice.  (of course they'll argue 
other package manager dependency solvers are stupid.. (which they are 
right in some circumstances, but not all.))  I'm still waiting to see 
the reaction when/if they announce an SXCE release with it included by 
default.

To work around your problem.. you could pre-record your desktop demo and 
then just speed the video up, make slides or...

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./C