On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for > > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a > > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-database is a > > waste of time. > > > > On my system, only 30% of .desktop files have a MimeType field. If > > anyone can make per-package statistics on the whole archive, that would > > probably give a better picture. > > It's once per upgrade and ridiculously cheap; I don't think the waste > of time is an argument. However this probably makes the direct calls > in maintainer scripts as cheap. The only arguments in favor of > triggers here are: > - single place to fix/hack where all the calls are done > - avoids a dh_foo call or custom hackery for packages not using > debhelper > and these aren't as compelling as the time to upgrade argument which is > usually the reason for triggers. > > sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total
Is that with cold cache ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
