[Bug 28744] gconftool-2 very slow

[Lee Revell]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28744

Comment:
This problem is really, really bad, if your machine is not screaming
fast, it takes hours to upgrade 30 Gnome related packages.  Upon further
examination with strace, it seems that for *each package*, all the files
in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/ get regenerated 20 or 30 times.  Is it
regenerating ALL the XML files for each file installed or something?

There has GOT to be some potential for optimization here... I'm afraid
to upgrade because pulling in a handful of Gnome packages will make my
machine grind to a crawl for the rest of the afternoon.  I am afraid
"very slow" is a significant understatement of the problem...