Boot speedup with readahead

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 00:24 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:27 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > And doing it this way would be more effective than cron as there are
> > > plenty of people (especially with laptops/desktops which aren't on all
> > > the time) for whom cron really isn't appropriate for anything that we
> > > actually care to have done
> >
> > We still need to trigger pre-linking after yum transactions rather than
> > by a cron job...
> 
> Please keep users of other package managers than yum in mind, too.  Can things 
> like these be hooked to rpm level transactions rather than yum 
> ("%triggerpostrans -- *" or something)?

Not really -- for one thing, there isn't functionality for transaction
level triggers.  And even if there were, using them would introduce
other new and different problems.  It really boils down to the fact that
the Fedora package manager is yum.  If users of other package managers
want to get their package manager to do similar things, we won't stop
them -- but trying to make everything work for such a small minority is
going to be increasingly difficult.  Much like if you wanted to use dpkg
+ alien to install packages rather than using rpm

Jeremy