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From: Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:39:49
Message-Id: 20140113163859.61c3df01@gentp.lnet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team) by Tom Wijsman
1 On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100
2 Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100
5 > Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a
8 > > pkg with all its deps satisfied.
9 >
10 > Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :)
11
12 Which sadly also means that some updates get skipped silently. (Those
13 which would trigger rebuilds of other packages because of sub-slot
14 deps, had that case yesterday).
15
16 > > Ironically, launching the same emerge command twice, will take more
17 > > or less the same time.
18 >
19 > Determinism results in more or less the same time, that's correct;
20 > proper benchmarks would show you a similar result.
21
22 I guess he means that the (according to the file sizes) extensive
23 caching doesn't seem to be of much use.
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27 Luis Ressel <aranea@×××××.de>
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