Hi,

Joey Hess wrote:
> Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order:
> 
> - scrollkeeper
>       This is a huge speed pig, and d-i has hacks to disable it and 
>       run it at the end that I would love to be able to remove.
>       dpkg's triggers.txt has a plan for triggerizing it
> - tetex stuff
>       Also very slow. Maintainers already plan to use triggers.
> - update-menus 
>       Run by zillions of postinsts and postrms, many of these can be
>       gotten rid of entirely by using triggers, which is a big
>       complexity win.
>       I have written a patch for initial trigger support in menu. (#473467)
> - ldconfig
>       Seems to be some uncertainty about where it's possible to
>       triggerize this safely and reliably.
> - update-mime
> - update-mime-database
>       We could probably speed up desktop installs by about 1 minute by
>       triggerizing these.
> - update-icon-caches
> - update-desktop-database
>       These are not very slow, nor used by a great many packages,
>       but triggerizing them would allow getting rid of dh_icons and 
>       dh_desktop eventually, which I would appreciate.
> - install-info
>       Currnently it has to be told which info file has changed, but
>       that could easily be removed. Triggerizing this would simplify
>       some maintainer scripts. (Only ones that don't need to pass
>       install-info any options.)

Maybe also fc-cache calls?

Regards,

Rene


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