[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:01 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Michael Schroeder (mls at suse.de) said:
> >> If you just want to speed up ldconfig, here's a glibc patch for you.
> >> We've got it in SUSE Linux since SL10.0, no problems so far.
> >
> > Sure, but the best way to speed it up is to not run it. With reasonable
> > packaging policies, we should be able to get rid of all the %post/%postun
> > nonsense.
> >
> > Perhaps the better tack is to use this patch as an example, change
> > package policies, and just remove the calls from the rpms themselves.
> 
> That would work :)

Would it be worthwhile to modify the patch to just warn us that
something is calling ldconfig so we can chase any remainders down?

-sv