Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> Maybe sqlite is one to try initially. There's guile-sqlite3 for reading
>> and writing, and it can contain multiple tables as well as indexes for
>> fast searching.
>>
>>> Where would we store this database?  In /var?
>>
>> Per user is probably most flexible, so in the home directory somewhere.
>
> Hmm, but this data relates to items in the store and online, they are
> global.  Per-user would mean redundant packages and redundant (remote) queries.

Yeah, maybe there's some way of optimising things for systems with
multiple users.