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> There would be two solutions: the spool could be disabled, and the
> command used to store a command in the spool would execute it
> immediately, or dpkg should also trigger the spool after installing a
> package.
>
> As dpkg can install many packages in one invocation, the spool should be
> used.
>
>
> When you install a plenty of font packages, each package will, in its
> postinst, run one or many mkfontdir. When an Apache module is installed,
> you will be prompted if you want the configuration files to be modified
> and Apache reloaded for each module package. There is also ldconfig, and
> so on...
>
> With the spool, because these actions are needed only once, they are
> triggered only once, when all files are present.
>
> Quickly,
> le Moine Fou

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