[arch-general] Slow startup of mc

[Sergej Pupykin]

It is bug-feature I think.
As I understand it is dns resolving problem.
mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1            localhost.localdomain    localhost
192.168.1.2        myhostname


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc
From: Abdul Halim <sagikliwon at gmail.com>
To: arch-general at archlinux.org
Date: Mon Dec 29 2008 14:38:04 GMT+0300 (MSK)
> Hi.
> I just found out that mc (midnight commander) in extra repository is
> buggy in a sense that it will take
> around 7 secs or more to start. This happens to me on several machines.
> Other distro are reporting this issues too:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24038
>
> To resolve this issue, I have downloaded mc-mp from community which is
> more stable.
>
> I am suggesting that mc to be removed from the extra repo since it
> is an unstable version of mc.
>
> Regards.
>
> archlinuxsagi
>