> And if I install packages with dpkg? There would be two solutions: the spool could be disabled, and the command used to store a command in the spool would execute it immediately, or dpkg should also trigger the spool after installing a package. As dpkg can install many packages in one invocation, the spool should be used. > How is the spool any different from an actual postinst file? When you install a plenty of font packages, each package will, in its postinst, run one or many mkfontdir. When an Apache module is installed, you will be prompted if you want the configuration files to be modified and Apache reloaded for each module package. There is also ldconfig, and so on... With the spool, because these actions are needed only once, they are triggered only once, when all files are present. Quickly, le Moine Fou -- pierre.thierry@moine-fou.org OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A
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