On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:26 +0000, Gary Benson wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > David Walluck writes: > > > Also, I thought aot-compile was a good script, but it was done > > > away with. Wouldn't it make sense to bring this back and have a > > > script that didn't rely on rpm, and then have rpm call this script > > > instead? This way, not only other RPM-based distros, but possibly > > > Debian or Ubuntu could even pick it up. > > > > aot-compile-rpm doesn't rely on RPM at all -- it's just REALLY badly > > named! :-) > > Not strictly true. It does have RPM-specific bits, but they're very > very small: 10 lines out of 436. I spoke to some of the Debian and > Ubuntu guys at DevJam about abstracting it but that's difficult to do > whilst it's alternatives-managed. Making aot-compile-rpm alternatives-managed was a mistake on my part, and one of the reasons I started this discussion. Tom
