[Gllug] coreutils checksums

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On 13 Jun 2011, Richard W. M. Jones said:
> Yeah, prelink's design is stupid.  Writing to /usr was always going to
> be a bad idea; it should have been written to store metadata about
> each file somewhere else, eg. under /var.

That's not practical without much larger changes to ld.so (to read this
metadata) than were needed for prelink. Also the extra directory and
file lookups would have slowed the loading process right back down
again, negating prelink's effect.

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