[install-discuss] Caiman Architecture document posted for review

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> I've done a prototype which was much faster but somehow the
>> people in charge are determined to pile a ton of mechanisms
>> on top of this such as "doors as files".  Too many mechanism,
>> a daemon running to create the file on the fly, etc.  I think
>> it can be solved with a low-tech solution which retains the
>> contents file.
>
>Thanks for this insight.  Throwing out the idea of a DB was mostly an 
>example of whether we were looking at the right question.  However, this 
>still doesn't answer the question of whether the file needs to be 
>sorted.  Why is the file sorted?

It's not the need for sorting, it's the fact that many packages
update the same directories and that the tools using it depend
on it being sorted (and not "sort" sorted; but rather sorted
on pathname ignoring "=" delimiters)

Casper