Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 15:24:33 UTC 2007
Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) said:
> > 3. great ANOTHER daemon running, how lovely.
>
> Nope, with system activation we only need to start this when a user is
> trying to _do_ something, and then we can quit when there are no updates
> scheduled or not in an installer.
Is system activation really a good interface when the daemon has
to:
1) query metadata (download from internet)
2) query installed packages
This can introduce a not-insignifcant delay - how does system-activation
handle this in general?
Bill
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