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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:09:26
Message-Id: 20170711020912.305039c1@snowblower
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:24:10 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > William, I'm not sure if you're aware of how package managers work but
4 > checking reverse dependencies of a package takes significant amount of
5 > time. Changing -C to do that would be a serious performance
6 > regression. Which would result in users requesting yet another option
7 > to disable this.
8
9 Eh, that's a Portage performance problem, not a package manager
10 performance problem.
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com>