Andrew Haley wrote:
David Walluck writes:
> I don't know how I feel about the Makefile idea. In any case, it
> should never require user intervention. What besides sendmail is
> using this method anyhow? IMO, `make' should be touched by
> packagers only, certainly not by end users, and not even by system
> admins.
They won't need to. The question here is how we fix our existing
scripts so that they don't do unnecessary work. If we do that, then
they can be called unconditionally. make is the right answer here,
because it's a tool that already knows how to do the dependency
analysis that's needed.
All it has to do is read every .db file under /usr/lib/gcj and write
what it finds to a .db file in /var/lib/gcj. Where's the dependency
analysis in that?
Cheers,
Gary