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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix edit mutt -- with new option, and dependency, how I got it working
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:34:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310213433.GA9444@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310230649.4cced66d@debian-netbook>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:06:49PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:45:51 -0500
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 07:58:06AM +0100, Jean Louis wrote:
> >  [...]  
> > 
> > I'm really glad you mentioned this on our list! My "Archive" mail folder
> > has ~30000 messages, and I rarely opened it because of how long it would
> > take Mutt to load them all. With this option enabled, it loads almost
> > instantly, once the cache is created.
> > 
> > :)
> 
> sounds like it'd be good to enable
> 
> > 
> > I agree that we should build our Mutt with this option enabled.
> > 
> > If everyone agrees, the question is which database to use — we have gdbm
> > and bdb in our package tree (I think tokyocabinet is a WIP). I have no
> > idea which database is a better choice. What do people think?
> 
> Assuming mutt, gdbm and bdb build on all architectures, comparing guix graph
> of mutt, gdbm and bdb, and the graph of the two databases is identical. The
> only other input I have is that debian uses tokyocabinet as a dependancy.

It looks like they both build on all architectures.

Gdbm is a little smaller and it's a GNU project, so I vote for gdbm, in
the absence of any knowledge of the two databases' technical merits.

> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  0:44 guix edit mutt -- with new option, and dependency, how I got it working Jean Louis
2016-03-10  1:45 ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-10  6:58   ` Jean Louis
2016-03-10 20:45     ` Leo Famulari
2016-03-10 21:06       ` Efraim Flashner
2016-03-10 21:34         ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-03-11 13:37           ` Ludovic Courtès

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