Liferea is a RSS feed reader for Unix-like systems. The program uses an SQLite database for storing subscribed news feeds. Since version 1.8.0, Liferea performs a VACUUM on each startup to rebuild the entire database liferea.db. This is a horrible thing to do for larger database files, because this operation may take several minutes.
The patch below fixes this problem by removing the VACUUM operation from the program startup.
$ cd /usr/src $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/liferea/Liferea%20Stable/1.8.0/liferea-1.8.0.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf liferea-1.8.0.tar.gz $ wget http://www.vakuumverpackt.de/reducedstartuptimeforliferea/liferea-1.8.0-VACUUM.patch $ patch -p0 < liferea-1.8.0-VACUUM.patch $ cd liferea-1.8.0 $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/liferea-1.8.0 $ make $ make install $ /opt/liferea-1.8.0/bin/liferea --version
$ sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.8/liferea.db ... sqlite> VACUUM; sqlite> ^D $