Issue in glibc in FC3T3 ?

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Nov 2 20:56:40 UTC 2004


tir, 02.11.2004 kl. 18.12 skrev Per Bjornsson:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 04:38, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > > >prelink speeds up app startup - it does the work once to save startup
> > > >times repeatedly.
> > 
> > Then isn't it more convenient to run it when installing packages using
> > rpm (when I expect some thrashing) and let the user decide if and when
> > to prelink manually installed packages?
> 
> Not really, since when you install a new library everything that links
> to it needs to be prelinked again. Say there's a glibc update; do you
> really want the computer to thrash for between 10 minutes and half an
> hour, depending on how fast your hardware is?
> 
It wouldn't be a big problem - if there was an option not to do it, rpm
was freed (so you could bacground it/open another console and install
another package), and it was stoppable (control+c).
> 




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