Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Fri Jun 5 18:00:41 UTC 2009


Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
>>> I don't know how hard it would be to fix rpm to allow for that though.
>> Just off the top of my head, this doesn't feel like something rpm should
>> be in charge of. To me it seems more likely that we need something in a
>> base/core rpm that installs an inotify script for system dirs that does
>> what it should when something is dropped into it...?
>>
> 
> Ugh, no. We don't need another running service to do this. Just have rpm do it as part of its post install and you don't need to involve inotify; it knows a file showed up because it put it there a few milliseconds ago.
Inotify isn't a service/daemon, and its running already afaik??



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