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On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:21:58 +0000 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:16:45 +0100 |
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> Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:49:17 -0800 |
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> > Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > The caching may not be of use, depending on your configuration. |
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> > > (For example, if you use a gentoo-x86 checkout as your main repo, |
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> > > you will probably want to run generate cache entries whenever you |
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> > > cvs up.) It is there to cache ebuild metadata, because if your |
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> > > depgraph has a few thousand nodes, having to spawn bash to |
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> > > generate the metadata for every node is very expensive. |
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> > It sounds crazy to use gentoo-x86 without a cache; to some extent, |
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> > the earlier mentions on this ML by Ciaran that we should improve |
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> > input would make more sense if would want to run without a cache. |
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> > But I feel like this shouldn't be a topic of discussion unless we |
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> > intent 'works fast on a plain CV checkout' to be an actual feature. |
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> I think you're misunderstanding that comment. It's not just the file |
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> formats that are bad. It's also what data is provided. Two examples |
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> are the massive lengths we have to go to to figure out what to do |
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> with || dependencies (thanks to the horrific abuses commonly used in |
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> the tree...), and the well-documented REQUIRED_USE screwup. |
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Iotw, 'input'; but thank you for clarifying. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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