Can we make readahead more robust to package updates?

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:33:14PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > What do you do if you have a box where readahead makes boot slower?
> > rpm -e readahead?
> You can, but it does seem odd to install something tha makes the
> system less efficient. I should do more testing on laptops; I know
> at least on some it slows things down.

Okay, I admit I actually take the more drastic solution of removing it from
comps.xml. I don't remember the numbers, but it was definitely making my FC4
laptop boot more slowly. I haven't given it another chance.... And on
non-laptop systems that don't reboot often, it's basically pointless anyway.

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