On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:06:22PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > >> That would prevent update-menus from being run if a package was >> installed not using apt. > > Yes, this is correct. But what is actually the advantage of calling > update-menus using triggers instead of doing it in the postinst. Each package which supplies a menu entry doesn't need a postinst snippet. Only the menu program needs to know what to do. > Currently the > usage of triggers leads rather to more than to less calls of update-menus > while only one is really needed (except I'm missing something). The number of times update-menus is called should be at most as many as before triggers were introduced. Maybe what you're seeing is that packages supplying a menu entry are calling update-menus in their maintainer scripts as well as having the triggered call to update-menus occur. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
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