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Re: PATCH: _rpm caches installed rpms

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: adam@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: _rpm caches installed rpms
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:51:47 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <19990929195933.A15944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Adam Spiers at "Sep 29, 1999 7:59:33 pm"
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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

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