Richard Hughes (hughsient@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > 1) query metadata (download from internet) > > Starting a service takes a few ms. To handle the 'start()' signal, sure. But it depends on the service itself as to when it's ready. I'm mainly just wondering about system activation as an appropriate API for any service that takes a non-trivial amount of time to initialize. > > 2) query installed packages > > If the metadata is already okay it should be really quick. Or do I > misunderstand your point? ... which would require some sort of daemon/automated task to make sure it's up to date. But we're off in the weeds now. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list