Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: Andrew Cowie <andrew@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initial portage-ng doc online
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:52:14
Message-Id: 1070437998.15115.69.camel@ht.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] initial portage-ng doc online by Andrew Cowie
1 On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:10, Andrew Cowie wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:27, Daniel Robbins wrote:
3 > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/
4 > > [which includes]
5 >
6 > "* Stop using mtimes for packages. Have portage look up all files in the
7 > vardb to ensure that a file isn't duplicated and unmerge it if not.
8 > Potentially slow... Need some way to speed it up... hash of filenames?"
9 >
10 > One piece of work that has focused on this is a tool called RadMind, out
11 > of the University of Michigan; http://www.radmind.org/ .
12
13 This is fascinating stuff. I'll be sure to add radmind concepts to the
14 Portage-ng architecture.
15
16 Regards,
17
18 Daniel

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