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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Marcelo Andrier |
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<marcelo.andrier@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I failed to see why the "Cache sync" idea is too ambitious. It's not |
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> only about space but also speed. It still takes forever to sync and |
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> search packages, and really one does not need all the cruft from the |
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> portage tree. Besides I wonder how many Gentoo users have their |
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> portage directory on squashfs, and users with space limits usually |
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> have other limits. I bet a cache sync would actually be much more |
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> welcome than a database for file collisions. Students and mentors, do |
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> consider! |
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What are you using to search? esearch for instance takes about .7 |
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seconds to search the entire tree for a package. I bet eix is as fast |
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or faster. |
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emerge -s is probably slow. It might be useful to pragmatic to just |
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remove it and point users at tools that don't take forever. |
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> Also please don't remove the ideas on the wiki. Even if one dev |
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> doesn't think it's a good idea does not mean someone else won't. The |
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> fact it was the first idea a student picked meant it's not so bad, |
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> even if it could be improved. |
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It has nothing to do with being the first idea. If people add stupid |
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ideas to the wiki you bet we will call them out as such when people |
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want to work on them. Trust me when I say about half of the |
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applications we will likely receive will be about an idea that is: |
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1) so poorly specified we can't figure out what the actual project is |
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2) already implemented somewhere else |
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3) just technically infeasible |
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4) Not worth the effort |
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5) Not able to be completed in 3 months |
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6) able to be completed in 2 weeks |
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We have a limited number of slots (like every year) and we want to |
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focus on the high value projects. I'm not saying this project is not |
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interesting and people can work on whatever they want in their free |
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time; but Google is paying for features here, so we will value |
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projects that deal with features people will actually need and use. |
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> Marcelo |
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> (i did try to answer the original thread, but this is a new |
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> subscription and the get archived mail action did not work) |
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