On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-database is a > waste of time. > > On my system, only 30% of .desktop files have a MimeType field. If > anyone can make per-package statistics on the whole archive, that would > probably give a better picture.
It's once per upgrade and ridiculously cheap; I don't think the waste of time is an argument. However this probably makes the direct calls in maintainer scripts as cheap. The only arguments in favor of triggers here are: - single place to fix/hack where all the calls are done - avoids a dh_foo call or custom hackery for packages not using debhelper and these aren't as compelling as the time to upgrade argument which is usually the reason for triggers. sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org