Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for
> > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a
> > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-database is a
> > waste of time.
> >
> > On my system, only 30% of .desktop files have a MimeType field. If
> > anyone can make per-package statistics on the whole archive, that would
> > probably give a better picture.
>
> It's once per upgrade and ridiculously cheap; I don't think the waste
> of time is an argument. However this probably makes the direct calls
> in maintainer scripts as cheap. The only arguments in favor of
> triggers here are:
> - single place to fix/hack where all the calls are done
> - avoids a dh_foo call or custom hackery for packages not using
> debhelper
> and these aren't as compelling as the time to upgrade argument which is
> usually the reason for triggers.
>
> sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total
Is that with cold cache ?
Mike
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