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Imagine every setting in ~/.config and /etc is stored in corresponding SQLite database, and you have common interface to access both. Now imagine this database
by ilyt 3y ago
Imagine every setting in ~/.config and /etc is stored in corresponding SQLite database, and you have common interface to access both.
Now imagine this database is not a great engineering product like SQLite but really, really REALLY fucking sucks at being database, and slows down quickly with sizing up.
Now imagine there is no sensible way to get obsolete data out of it, and as every program uses same file it just gathers, and gathers, and gathers...
- Someone1234 3y ago> REALLY fucking sucks at being database, and slows down quickly with sizing up. This is over 20-years out of date.
- mcpackieh 3y agoThen why does KSP2 spamming the registry with orphaned entries eventually cause KSP2 to hang on launch?
- c0nsumer 3y agoLikely because the app can't deal with the size of the data it's getting back when it tries to get its entries.
- throeaaysn 3y ago[dead]