Subject: bug#36376: Application menu of desktop environment not automatically updated

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:23:21 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 16:25, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:

[...]

>> The main downside is extra grafting, which means extra disk and CPU
>> usage for our users.  However, libx11 (11K dependents) is also grafted,
>> so it shouldn’t make things worse (GLib has 6K dependents).
>
> No free lunch. :-)
> Is it really slow or acceptable?

If you’re installing a graphical applications, it’s already being
grafted, so the extra graft doesn’t make a difference.

Non-graphical applications that depend on GLib will now need to be
grafted, but I think there aren’t many of them, and they too might also
be grafted for other reasons.

Ludo’.