activation thought

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Havoc,

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:35, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Presumably we want a file per app to allow things to work with packages
> (each RPM owns a file listing the services in that package).
> Couldn't we address performance issues much as fontconfig does?

	Yes; that'd work - as long as we specify it at this stage for maximum
deployment. I guess a simple perl script for maximum
platform-agnosticism might work[1].

> The cache could also omit translations, then we could parse individual
> files "as needed" to get those, perhaps.

	Or we could glup translations into their own file to save parsing
thrash perhaps; might save some hard-core head movement.

	HTH,

		Michael.

[1] - perl is particularly ubiquitous it seems to me; was there a reason
that pkg-config was written in C ?
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