icon cache scriplet guideline update

Tue Dec 19 19:46:30 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:02 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> > Yes, intentional.  The 'touch' is not needed... that's what 
> > 'forceupdate' already does.
> 
> How is replacing a call to a binary with a 837 line shell script
> (that will then call the binary) an improvement?
It's called abstraction and encapsulation.

>  What actual issues does it solve?
You can exchange anything underneath/inside without having to bother
users nor to touch a spec, again (provided a tool's CLI is stable).

Ralf