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On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:40 +0200, Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Portage is slow? How to make it faster? By removing unused ebuilds! |
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> I wrote a little script to check which ebuilds in portage aren't used |
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> anylonger, here the result: |
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> Total packages checked: 9076 |
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> Total ebuilds checked: 18662 |
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> Total ebuilds to remove: 4643 |
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> Of course the script can't detect every ebuild situation, so take the numbers |
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> with care. But still it shows that 1/4 of all ebuilds could be removed. This |
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> would improve portage performance by at least 1/4, so developers go ahead. |
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> The script is attached, just run it as if it was repoman, it won't do |
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> anything, just show the orphaned packages. |
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> mfg, heinrich :-) |
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I feel that I should point out that "large style" corporations, and the |
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smaller PLC's whose Systems departments like to play at being larger |
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corporations don't like changing version numbers of packages, full stop. |
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Purging old versions for a few seconds speed increase in portage |
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operations would potentially cause some, if not many people to make |
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extensive use of the overlay, just to satisfy their PHB's. |
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Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org> |