From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2859 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Nov 2002 23:37:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2835 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2002 23:37:48 -0000 From: Daniel Robbins To: Stefan Jones Cc: gentoo-core , gentoo-dev , woodchip@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1037541053.25487.58.camel@localhost> References: <1037541053.25487.58.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 17 Nov 2002 16:39:45 -0700 Message-Id: <1037576386.5997.11.camel@amd.gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Prelinking in Gentoo and interactions with portage X-Archives-Salt: fb403af2-a61e-4d28-b291-3a883d7ea2af X-Archives-Hash: 4f5616b9e7c4c2bae32cae8fc888ed62 On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 06:50, Stefan Jones wrote: > Note: re-prelinking a file is very quick, so it may be feasible to > prelink all dependants in emerge after the library install. But this > would require reverse dependency checking. > > Once the details are fixed, I will happing code this up and submit the > patches. Thanks very much for this info and for looking into this. Recently, Mandrake claimed they are superior in performance to Gentoo Linux (in one of their newsletters, I think) because they prelink and we don't. Maybe we should. Maybe we shouldn't. Opinions welcome :) I'd also like to track down that Mandrake comparison -- woodchip, do you have the reference? Best Regards, -- Daniel Robbins Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list