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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: revisiting the sycoca
From:       Harald Sitter <sitter () kde ! org>
Date:       2024-02-13 12:37:00
Message-ID: CAEc+18FK3BP=X5Oe2FCPznByGpuig-qQGpH61aAXGBJJO9LbbA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
>
> On 2024-02-08, Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org> wrote:
> > It occurs to me that we should ponder sycoca a bit.
> >
> > Currently the sycoca contains 3 types of caches:
>
> At some point I remember David Faure, iirc as part of his QMimeType
> work, removed part of sycoca, but left the remaining bits as a per
> user cache *because* we allow the user to modify things.
>
> I don't know how much of it is still relevant, but I do think we should
> be testing it, both on modern ssd systems, but given our occasional
> marketing drive about keeping older systems running, especially also
> on older systems with a spinning metal disk, rather than a bit handwavy
> "This is probably going to be fine"

Do you have a testing plan in mind?

HS
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