Bug#72140: Setting up libraries too slow

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk>]

Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:

> I have a large number of library packages installed on my
> system. Unfortunately, setting up libraries is very slow.  Whatever
> the library tools are doing, they are not doing it
> efficiently. Adding a library should have a sub-linear running time
> complexity (wrt number of libraries), otherwise the set-up takes too
> much time for the user. [ I suspect it is O(n) now... ]

This may be a shot in the dark, but woody has a package called
'deborphan'.  If you have lots of old and now unused libraries
installed, it can help you find and remove them.

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