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Re: Policy Suggestion - User Configuration Files



On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:11:11PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > It caches information to reduce startup times.  dlopen() 10 *.so files
> > > and doing various function calls to get all the info stored in that file
> > > takes some time ...
> > 
> > Yeah but I _don't_ _need_ _no_ _libquicktime_ _codecs_, so avoiding to waste
> > all that time can be done simply by not doing that unless I have actually
> > requested something that needs libquicktime codecs.
> 
> xawtv wants to know:  when it creates all the windows and widgets at
> startup time.  There is a menu with the available codecs in the record
> dialog ...

Yeah, but I don't use that in xawtv. The program could be smart and expect
that some of its users just want to, uh, watch TV. :)

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