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Bug#447609: ldconfig triggerisation



On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:11:37AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Unfortunately because of the way /lib and particularly /usr/lib are
> dumping grounds, file triggers wouldn't work properly.  A file trigger
> is activated by packages' files whose pathnames start with the name of
> the trigger.  So the trigger would have to be /usr/lib/ but that
> covers enormous amounts of junk.

Why not just move to use of dpkg-trigger piecemeal in each postinst?
That would involve no more invocations of ldconfig than we are already
enduring.




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