use of gtk-update-icon-cache?

[Rex Dieter]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> 
>>IMO, this is getting friggin rediculous adding so much crud in
>>%%post/%%postun to *so many* packages.  Can't this task be relagated to
>>a nightly cron job instead (controlled by whatever owns
>>/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache, of course)?
> 
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong (and I often am) - but I think this effects the
> usability directly after installing the package, 

AFAIK, you are wrong.  It'll still work, it just won't get gain the 
speed benefits of the pre-built cache.  Similar analogies to why prelink 
  isn't re-run after every binary/library install...

-- Rex