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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 16:36:51
Message-Id: ubkqvzejr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM by Florian Schmaus
1 >>>>> On Sat, 01 Oct 2022, Florian Schmaus wrote:
2
3 > Bug #719201 was triggered by dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2000. It
4 > appears that the ebuild had more than 6000 entries in SRC_URI [1],
5
6 That includes double counting and must be divided by the number of
7 developers in TEXLIVE_DEVS. AFAICS that number was two in 2020. So 3000
8 is more realistic as a number there.
9
10 > from which A is generated from. Hence even a EGO_SUM limit of 3000
11 > entries should provide enough safety margin to avoid any Golang ebuild
12 > running into this.
13
14 See above, with 3000 entries there may be zero safety margin. It also
15 depends on total filename length, because the limit is the Linux
16 kernel's MAX_ARG_STRLEN (which is 128 KiB).
17
18 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o>