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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:15:12
Message-Id: 56200942.7090207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 10/15/2015 01:06 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 10/15/15 3:15 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >>
4 >> In portage, @world = @profile + @selected + @system, which means that
5 >> @profile is protected from depclean since it's a part of @world.
6 >>
7 >> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532224
8 >
9 > I thought so but wasn't sure and was about to test. Both @system and
10 > @profile are controlled via the packages file in portage and stack.
11 > Packages in @system lead with an * while @profile don't. @system
12 > packages have incomplete dependency specifications while @profile have
13 > full.
14
15 Right.
16
17 > This affects more than just emerge's ability to parallelize, no?
18
19 Having complete dependency specifications could be useful for some other
20 things, but allowing for more aggressive parallelization is one of the
21 most obvious advantage.
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>