On Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 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 frequently.
dpkg in Ubuntu and soon in Debian will allow to use triggers, so any package can register interest in a tree and changes to this tree; it will only be told that the tree changed (and not what changed), but that's enough for this use case. See deb-triggers(5). HTH -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
