Bill Nottingham wrote :
Matthias Saou (thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net) said:
Hehe, but you're thinking in terms of today's rpm. Discussing stuff with Jeff at the FOSDEM this week-end, he already has a way of dealing with this well known limitation, which (from what I've understood) would basically be a "pre everything" approach. A similar "post everything" approach and a little magic could also nicely solve the icon caches, mime types, menus etc. performance problems.
Well, the approach I posted was what happens *with* pre-transaction syscalls, as they were implemented by Jeff. What needs to happen is that the pre-transaction stuff needs to run before the transaction is even computed, which makes it messy.
Not "pre transaction", but "pre everything" indeed. He mentioned that the idea was to fix exactly this scenario (from what I understood), but I didn't catch the details.
Anyway, "not anytime soon" still stands, and even includes "never" ;-)
Matthias