Andrew Haley wrote: > David Walluck writes: > > I don't know how I feel about the Makefile idea. In any case, it > > should never require user intervention. What besides sendmail is > > using this method anyhow? IMO, `make' should be touched by > > packagers only, certainly not by end users, and not even by system > > admins. > > They won't need to. The question here is how we fix our existing > scripts so that they don't do unnecessary work. If we do that, then > they can be called unconditionally. make is the right answer here, > because it's a tool that already knows how to do the dependency > analysis that's needed. All it has to do is read every .db file under /usr/lib/gcj and write what it finds to a .db file in /var/lib/gcj. Where's the dependency analysis in that? Cheers, Gary
