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From: Elfyn McBratney <beu@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:26:05
Message-Id: 200504291526.25804@zippy.emcb.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft by Jason Wever
1 On Friday 29 Apr 2005 15:11, Jason Wever wrote:
2 > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > The initialization time of portage is directly related to the number of
4 > > packages installed. Cutting out excess ebuilds from the tree won't speed
5 > > this up at all. Cutting out excess ebuilds won't have much effect on the
6 > > general running of emerge at all, actually, except for updating the cache
7 > > after syncing.
8 >
9 > Does that include the about >=10 second delay when emerge is first run on
10 > a box after a reboot before you get any visible output on the screen, or
11 > is that an entirely different problem?
12
13 Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :)
14
15 Best,
16 Elfyn
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>