On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:24 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Richard Hughes (hughsient(a)gmail.com) said:
> > 3. great ANOTHER daemon running, how lovely.
>
> Nope, with system activation we only need to start this when a user is
> trying to _do_ something, and then we can quit when there are no updates
> scheduled or not in an installer.
Is system activation really a good interface when the daemon has
to:
1) query metadata (download from internet)
Starting a service takes a few ms.
2) query installed packages
If the metadata is already okay it should be really quick. Or do I
misunderstand your point?
Richard.