Andreas Tille wrote: > in menu 2.1.39 the trigger feature was implemented. I wonder whether > this implementation is really clever because update-menus which might > take some time is called for every package that touches /usr/lib/menu > or /usr/share/menu. While there is a migration path described in > #473467 which brings the number of update-menus runs per apt run back > down to 1 (see #473461) I really wonder whether this is a sane approach. > > IMHO using a Post-Invoke script that will call update-menus at the > end of an apt run would be the better solution to make sure that > update-menus is called only once - which is the correct number of > runs for update-menus which is really needed. So a trigger feature > of update-menus could set a flag (for instance touch /var/run/update-menus) > and in case this file exists a Post-Invoke script could start update-menus.
That would prevent update-menus from being run if a package was installed not using apt. -- see shy jo
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