I am kind of annoyed by the time it takes to update the MIME database (something like two minutes on a recent i7 quad-core laptop). Until pacman has hooks/triggers, I have removed the calls to fdatasync (which are supposed to ensure that the files are truly written to disk). I prefer letting the system take care of it anyway, and I don't care much for consistency in desktop links and file associations. Y'know, it might bear the name "database", but it's not a database in the sense of a +1M row postgresql database). Anyone have an opinion on this? Am I a complete idiot in removing these calls to fdatasync? With this patch, updating takes around 5 seconds, haven't run it with a stopwatch yet. -- Sébastien Leblanc
