Re: Replacing ldconfig maintscripts with declarative methods

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Niels Thykier writes ("Replacing ldconfig maintscripts with declarative methods"):
> A possible solution is to replace these scripts with an
> "activate-no-await" trigger (again, no-await to avoid trigger cycles).
> I would need libc-bin to promote its trigger to part of its API for this
> to work.

I think this is a good idea.

>  * The major concern I have, is that "activate"-triggers are done for
>    - unpack (is this ok?)

It had better be !  (Ie I think it is OK.)


>  * Performance-wise we would see up to 5 calls to ldconfig instead of
>    1-2 per "dpkg run" (that processes triggers).

OTOH the reduced number of maintscript invocations might well outweigh
that.

Thanks,
Ian.