Bug#72140: Setting up libraries too slow

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> So couldn't we just run ldconfig at the end; stuff run in postinst will
> miss the cache but I'll bet that will still be faster than repeatedly
> running ldconfig.

And need be, ldconfig may be run after some important library updates
(ie those libraries that are most likely to be used by programs invoked
within postinst) Will that work?

Another possibility is of course to modify dynamic linker itself so it
does the cache management.

Thanks,

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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
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