On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:31 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Richard Hughes (hughsient(a)gmail.com) said:
> > > 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?
>
> ... which would require some sort of daemon/automated task to make
> sure it's up to date. But we're off in the weeds now.
How so ? Isn't that exactly what yum-updatesd is supposed to do ?
if you have a running daemon(yum-updatesd/yumd), why not just use it as
a persistent daemon rather than depending on dbus to start it each time?
Also - it lets us work with the portion of the market who run servers
and like the idea of a daemon they can query for pkg information, but
don't run dbus.
We turned dbus off everywhere we could - it just used ram and didn't do
anything for me running a webserver.
-sv