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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:11:39AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Jamie Lenehan schreef:
> > That update-alternatives thing on the
> > other hand I have definately been thinking about redoing in C when I
> > get a chance - it's painfully slow.
> 
> The good folks from o-hand.conf gave us this:
> http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/packages/update-alternatives
> 
> I think it would be wise to move to the dpkg version and if that's still to slow, re-do it
> in C.

The big issue I see with the dpkg version is that it's written in
perl... I think I'd prefer to have a slow version then be forced to
always install perl ;)

-- 
 Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org>