Re: GConf in Debian Sarge

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:27:15AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lun 21/06/2004 à 00:34, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> > The patch does the reload in the signal handler - probably not good,
> > especially in this case if you're installing a series of packages
> > getting a second signal is not unlikely.
> 
> Yes, that's what I thought. However gconfd is quite fast to reload its
> databases so it won't hassle the system (we have much more obnoxious
> stuff in packages postinsts, see e.g. update-mozilla-chrome). Of course
> I'd like to see it done a better way.

Or the infamous scrollkeeper stuff, or whatever it is, which stops
around a minute or two for each package using it :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther