On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 20:36 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote:
> Exactly how do Linux distros automatically update their menus every time you 
> install or remove a program?

Most of them inotify on /usr/share/applications, at least that's what
gnome-menus does.  This process is of course full of race conditions...


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