On 22:41 Sat 15 Nov     , Zac Medico wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > One major problem with repoman+git is that a major feature of git is 
> > fast commits, but repoman is pretty slow (try a scan in 
> > x11-base/xorg-server). Anyone got a good idea for how to deal with this?
> 
> The main performance bottleneck is the dependency checks, and the
> time consumed by those is related to the number of profiles checked.
> 
> # egrep -v "(#.*|^$)" /usr/portage/profiles/profiles.desc | wc -l
> 122
> 
> It seems excessive to check 122 profiles. If we could reduce that
> number significantly then we might see a significant decrease in the
> time consumed by repoman.

You could cut it in half by not checking 'dev' profiles by default.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com