On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 04:38, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
prelink speeds up app startup - it does the work once to save startup times repeatedly.
Then isn't it more convenient to run it when installing packages using rpm (when I expect some thrashing) and let the user decide if and when to prelink manually installed packages?
Not really, since when you install a new library everything that links to it needs to be prelinked again. Say there's a glibc update; do you really want the computer to thrash for between 10 minutes and half an hour, depending on how fast your hardware is?
/Per