On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 09:50 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Thursday 11 October 2007 03:59:52 Jon Masters wrote: > > Seems to me that it'd be more useful if the readahead package > > configuration files (default/later) could use wildcards for path > > components such as firefox, python, etc. (so that you don't have quite > > the disconnect/lock-step requirement between these packages). > > I've been working on a tool that scans certain important paths looking for any > file that is unpackaged. What I've found is that a lot of files get installed > where the package creates the directory structure, but does not actually own > it. IOW, a packager will do: > I think one thing that would help performance overall is that packages must > own all the directories they create and delete them when its uninstalled. > This removes directory entries and improves search time. You're (partially) joking though, right? I mean the time spent in the kernel searching a directory path due to these is small fry ;-) Valid point though! Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
