On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:06:07PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:47:51PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > I think if there really are no major drawbacks, why not? But we > > currently do not know and prelink's manpage does not say anything > > about possible drawbacks. The libraries themselves are modified. This was my main reason for wanting it to be optional. After OOo is prelinked, the md5sum checksums become useless, so people who are very concerned about the integrity of their files should not use prelinking. And since Debian is supposed to be as secure as possible by default, this question needs to default to off. > Well, one thing to watch out for is that changes in the libraries being > prelinked against can invalidate the prelinking. This won't break > anything but it does cause the benefits of prelinking to vanish. > > This could be mitigated by (for example) rerunning prelinking during > cron.daily though that would be wasteful on stable systems. Really > prelinking is something that ideally ought to be addressed at the system > level rather than by individual packages. Yes, exactly. Our prelinking stuff is more of a stop-gap until something better comes along. Chris
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