On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:24:32AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > >to, 2008-07-03 kello 08:24 +0200, Andreas Tille kirjoitti: > >>/me as a completely uneducated apt / aptitude user thinks: Triggers have > >>done more harm than good. > > > >I haven't been following trigger adoption very much, so I'm ignorant: > >what harm have triggers done? > > It slows down apt-get / aptitude by calling update-menus / update-mandb > for every package that drops a file into this directory.
No, this simply isn't a fair characterisation. It calls it at most once for every dpkg run. However, apt-get typically works like this: dpkg --unpack <lots of packages> dpkg --configure <lots of packages> <repeat> It performs multiple dpkg runs either to avoid command-line overflow, to deal with Pre-Depends, or to ensure that Essential packages are configured immediately. When you're doing any kind of reasonably substantial upgrade, the number of trigger invocations will be *much* smaller than the number of packages being upgraded. Being completely uneducated is fine - we don't expect everyone to be dpkg gurus! - but it's worth listening to people who *are* educated before saying things like "triggers have done more harm than good". Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
