On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 03:35:38PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> James Carlson writes:
> > If writing the 15 lines that make up the guts of that script in some
> > more efficient manner taks a "large amount of time," then I'd suggest
> > either deferring this change until after IPS integrates or perhaps
> > finding someone willing to do that work.
> 
> I did some more thinking about this, and I guess I can pretend that
> it's not a regression, provided that it only gets that bad (a few
> minutes per upgrade) and then doesn't get substantially worse, and
> doesn't affect any other package installs in a noticable way.

Good point.

It doesn't get substantially worse unless the customer adds many entries
to /etc/services -- but at ~11,000 entries there's not many more that
they could add, so the time to merge is really bounded at some small
multiple of 1.5 minutes.

> I still don't think that splitting out "services.iana" is a good
> solution, though.  It's too alien.

OK.
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