[pacman-dev] Big pause with "pacman -R <pkg>"

[Andrew Gregory]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:04:35 -0500
Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> > Anyone else seeing a massive pause when using "pacman -R" with the
> > latest git?   Just as the progress bar starts?
> > 
> > Allan
> > 
> 
> Works for me, with the caveat that I'm running a build based on your
> latest working branch plus my repo-usage patches.
> 
> Not sure what would be hanging here.
> 
> d
> 

I get a significant delay when removing a package that is the sole owner
of a directory as the filelists for all installed packages are resolved
to make sure none of them own the directory as well.

Andrew