Re: triggers wishlist
Hi,
Joey Hess wrote:
> Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order:
>
> - scrollkeeper
> This is a huge speed pig, and d-i has hacks to disable it and
> run it at the end that I would love to be able to remove.
> dpkg's triggers.txt has a plan for triggerizing it
> - tetex stuff
> Also very slow. Maintainers already plan to use triggers.
> - update-menus
> Run by zillions of postinsts and postrms, many of these can be
> gotten rid of entirely by using triggers, which is a big
> complexity win.
> I have written a patch for initial trigger support in menu. (#473467)
> - ldconfig
> Seems to be some uncertainty about where it's possible to
> triggerize this safely and reliably.
> - update-mime
> - update-mime-database
> We could probably speed up desktop installs by about 1 minute by
> triggerizing these.
> - update-icon-caches
> - update-desktop-database
> These are not very slow, nor used by a great many packages,
> but triggerizing them would allow getting rid of dh_icons and
> dh_desktop eventually, which I would appreciate.
> - install-info
> Currnently it has to be told which info file has changed, but
> that could easily be removed. Triggerizing this would simplify
> some maintainer scripts. (Only ones that don't need to pass
> install-info any options.)
Maybe also fc-cache calls?
Regards,
Rene
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