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On 11/29/2011 08:51 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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> Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 as excerpted: |
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>> One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it |
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>> allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs, since packages |
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>> that's aren't in the system set don't trigger the code for bug 256616 |
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>> [1] which limits parallelization as a safety precaution. |
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>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616 |
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> And a VERY nice benefit that is, too. =:^) |
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> Except, don't dependencies of system profile packages get the same safety |
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> precaution applied, and at the level we're talking here, zlib, etc, |
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> aren't such packages going to almost certainly be dependencies of @system |
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> on a normal system, even if they're not in @system itself? |
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> If so, that's a relatively limited benefit in most cases. |
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Well, maybe there's not much parallelization benefit for sys-libs/zlib. |
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If it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, the system set and its |
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dependencies wouldn't need this kind of special treatment. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |