On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27.05.2011 02:22, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Florian Pritz >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It's been quite a while since I last brought this up so what's the >>> current status? >>> >>> Older discussions and the link to my repo are here [1]. >>> >>> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap#sodepends >> >> Sorry for the delayed response. My biggest piece of feedback that I >> levied before and got some positive feedback on before is doing >> s/so/lib/ on the naming so we can extend this in the future to non-so >> library formats if desired. > > Fixed > >> How costly is the find_sodepends() bit, especially on packages with >> thousands of files (sage-mathematics, game data, etc)? > > I've asked a few people, looked at the code used for stripping and I > think it's safe to check only executable files. That cut down the time > needed for sage from 5 min to 19 sec (i7-920, tempfs). > > I've also noticed that the stripping code uses -perm -o+x and not > -executable. The manpage says -executable also checks ACLs and owner, > group, other. Any reason why we don't use -executable?
Allan- do you have any objections with this branch now that my concerns have been addressed? Otherwise merging this should happen in order to get some more testers. -Dan
