[gentoo-user] when ldconfig should be run

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:15:30 -0700 

Hi,

I've noticed that after merging every package, portage runs ldconfig 
(the 'Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...' message). This takes a long 
time, and as far as I understand, for most packages is unnecessary. I 
looked in portage.py, and it appears that portage indeed checks whether 
the relevant directories where modified during the merge. However, this 
check is ignored if ldconfig should create links (ie, run without the -X 
flag). Can someone explain it? as far as I understand, links are only 
created to files in the same directories that are checked, so if they 
were not modified, no links should be created, right?

Thanks,
Moshe

PS. The relevant lines start around line 600 in portage.py

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