On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 04:38, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > >prelink speeds up app startup - it does the work once to save startup > > >times repeatedly. > > Then isn't it more convenient to run it when installing packages using > rpm (when I expect some thrashing) and let the user decide if and when > to prelink manually installed packages? Not really, since when you install a new library everything that links to it needs to be prelinked again. Say there's a glibc update; do you really want the computer to thrash for between 10 minutes and half an hour, depending on how fast your hardware is? /Per