From: Adam Spiers <adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: _rpm caches installed rpms
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:32:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990930193237.A2054@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E11WcsN-0005L6-00@crucigera.fysh.org>
Zefram (zefram@fysh.org) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> >I'm personally a fan of caching (sp?). Others may not be; should it
> >be configurable? In any case, the cache can easily be force-rebuilt.
>
> I think caching is dangerous in this case. If the rpm command is being
> used, then the data you are caching -- the list of installed packages
> -- is almost certainly changing.
Oops, good point. Peter, probably best to leave that patch out.
> The list can also be generated (with
> rpm -qa) quite quickly.
Not on my machine :-( 664 installed rpms ...
> In both of these aspects, rpm is unlike, for
> exxample, man, where caching is useful.
True.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-30 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-29 18:59 Adam Spiers
1999-09-30 9:51 ` Zefram
1999-09-30 18:32 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
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