On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Shane Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Spencer, Bob wrote:
> > Perhaps a light-weight daemon that uses inotify to listen for changes
> > to /usr/share/applications and then update the cache. That seems
> > easier than requiring changes to debian packages, but
Spencer, Bob wrote:
> Perhaps a light-weight daemon that uses inotify to listen for changes
> to /usr/share/applications and then update the cache. That seems
> easier than requiring changes to debian packages, but it would be
> running all the time and new packages are installed less frequentl
Perhaps a light-weight daemon that uses inotify to listen for changes to
/usr/share/applications and then update the cache. That seems easier
than requiring changes to debian packages, but it would be running all
the time and new packages are installed less frequently.
Bob
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Like Andi says, the basic flaw is that the freedesktop standard doesn't
include a program to run to update the cache, so let's fix that.
I would add a cache and instate the rule that whoever makes changes in
these directories needs to run the cache-update program. You may even be
able to tell t
FYI: with the latest freedesktop.org changes, we see +8sec bootup time
increase (shortened to +6sec by Horace). Some notes below.
Bob
From: Kleen, Andi
- Checksum is difficult -- either you risk not catching a change in som
