tir, 02.11.2004 kl. 18.12 skrev Per Bjornsson: > 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? > It wouldn't be a big problem - if there was an option not to do it, rpm was freed (so you could bacground it/open another console and install another package), and it was stoppable (control+c). >