/usrmove and path ordering

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Feb 15 00:26:31 UTC 2012


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Because dropping these dirs from the search paths is merely an
> optimization, not a requirement.

You call it an "optimization", I call it fixing a pessimization (performance 
regression).

And as the original message in the thread points out, the regression 
actually affects more than just performance, it also causes genuine bugs 
(with automatic prefix detection in applications).

        Kevin Kofler



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