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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: adam@spiers.net
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: _rpm caches installed rpms
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:51:47 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11WcsN-0005L6-00@crucigera.fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990929195933.A15944@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> from Adam Spiers at "Sep 29, 1999  7:59:33 pm"

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.  The list can also be generated (with
rpm -qa) quite quickly.  In both of these aspects, rpm is unlike, for
exxample, man, where caching is useful.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1999-09-30  9:51 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 [this message]
1999-09-30 18:32   ` Adam Spiers

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