On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:12:00 +0200, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> >     i=0;time while [ $i -lt 1000 ];do /usr/bin/gnome-open --help 
> > &>/dev/null;i=$[$i+1];done
> 
> I hope we can all agree that this is not useful example.

Explained in:
        https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-October/190274.html


> The complexity affects end uesrs. For example, a few years ago, a bad update
> to prelink broke everyone's systems.

We are back at the issue that every feature means more code/complexity.


> It also affects systems like tripwire,

I do not know tripwire but I guess it does not use / it should
use 'prelink -y'.


> and even rpm -V is more fragile. Most of the concerns raised are end-user
> (or sysadmin) concerns, in fact.

rpm -V is still the prelink Bug with know fix/workaround there but never
accepted/fixed in the package:
        -y has false mismatches
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666143

Jan
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