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Re: Unconditional prompting from dotfile packages



On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 07:18:48PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > What do you actually mean by unconditionally prompting - the
> > message for bytecompilation? What do you propose, to automatically
> > bytecompile?
> 
> is there any good reason not to do that? 

The only argument I see against autobytecompilation is that it could be
really slow on older machines. OTOH, only running dpkg takes a lot of
resources on older machines...

> or at least queue the job for execution when dpkg has exited
> (similar to what menu does).

If it's not really easy to implement, it'll have to become yet another
item on the TODO.Debian list.

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