Re: XATTR_PAX migration

On 09/09/2013 06:06 PM, Alex Efros wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:26:57PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> install is being wrapped by install.py.  As a result every instance of
>> install mean invoking the python interpreter.  With lots and lots of
>> installs, this adds up to being very slow.
>
> Why not just add a patch for `install`? Even if you will just exec
> `paxctl-ng` at end of `install` it still will be much faster.
>

We decided that changing the default behavior of install was not a good 
idea.  See [1]

There are places where we have to do pax markings before install. We 
could do them twice, that was the other option.  When I wrote the python 
wrapper, I had no idea it was going to be this slow.

Ref
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470660

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