Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:25:15PM +0000, Joey Hess wrote: > > - update-menus > > Run by zillions of postinsts and postrms, many of these can be > > gotten rid of entirely by using triggers, which is a big > > complexity win. > > I have written a patch for initial trigger support in menu. (#473467) > > I thought this one had a custom hack already ? It does not means that > it could not be dropped alltogether though.
The custom hack depends on all postinsts running update-menus, which is a large amount of unnecessary code. After re-reading the code today, I also belive it's got race conditions (#473464), amoung other problems. > > - ldconfig > > Seems to be some uncertainty about where it's possible to > > triggerize this safely and reliably. > > More importantly, since recently, ldconfig uses a second cache, and > is way faster than before. It seems less than safe to "optimize" > ldconfig through triggers, for a very little gain in the end. It does seem to take only 0.1 seconds from a warm cache here. -- see shy jo
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