Has anyone notice that this days almost every rpm has an "ldconfig"
statement in the scripts. And almost always in both, the postinstall and
the postuninstal, making it execute twice during a package upgrade.
To make things worse, we now have other things too, like update-menus,
that are run for every package installed.
Is this really necessary? I mean, in my system (128MB, PPro200, 2x10.1GB
WD IDE in RAID0) "ldconfig" takes a really long time to run (like 5-10
mins), making the upgrades of packages a real pain, since it is run at
least once for almost every package upgraded; and I upgrade packages
almost every day.
I think this is a real problem for the RPM subsystem, wouldn't it be
wise to run this only once at the end when installing multiple packages?
Obviously, some packages (even tough I don't know which ones would) will
need a current library map to install properly, but I guess most of them
doesn't. I think this problem should be addressed within RPM itself, and
not in the individual package scripts or in the distro.
Any one care to comment about this?
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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