Arch Pacman Database Format
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Below and behold the most ridiculous database solution ever seen.
A Arch database package ( core.db, community.db etc.) is a tar archive inside a tar.xz, with a list of folders, for each package a folder.
Interesting decision making.
What's so terrible about it? It's simple, easy to manipulate via shell scripts, and optimized for small file size. It's also easy to keep an exploded version in version control for easy management.
>>53755968
What's wrong?
>>53755968
how would you do it, genius windows luser?
>>53755968
That's not a tar archive inside a .tar.xz though, that's just WinRAR presenting the archive in a dumb way. It's xz compressed tar only.
>>53755968
>tar.xz is tar inside tar
>>53755968
ahm, ok but theoretically what is the inconvenience on that? what do you recommend instead?
>>53755968
>below and behold
>below
get a load of the idiot
it's "lo and behold" moron
>>53755968
>he uses winrar
>>53755968
>is a tar archive inside a tar.xz
Holy shit this fucking guy
>>53761613
>7Zip does not close Windows using ctrl+w
More like 7shit.
>>53755968
>tar archive inside a tar.xz
No you dumb fuck, it's just a .tar.xz. Winrar opened the .xz and found a .tar inside, then opened the .tar and found the folders.
>>53761613
trial winrar
>>53755968
>only 16 days left to buy a license
Time is ticking goy!
