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On Monday 04 October 2004 5:34 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > maillog: 04/10/2004-03:55:13(+0900): Chris White types |
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> > <snip> |
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> > |
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> >>Something like this might be a little nicer: |
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> >> |
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> >>media-sound/editors/audacity |
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> >>media-sound/players/xmms |
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> >> |
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> >>now let's say players gets way to huge: |
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> >> |
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> >>media-sound/players/mp3/ |
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> >>media-sound/players/ogg/ |
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> > |
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> > I personally like the idea. What about turning the first dash into a |
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> > slash as well? |
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> > |
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> > media/sound/editors/audacity |
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> > media/sound/players/xmms |
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> > media/sound/players/mp3/ |
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> > media/sound/players/ogg/ |
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> |
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> This has been brought up before in the past and been shot down, but I'll |
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> humor you. If support for this were to be added into Portage, there would |
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> be a few things to think about: |
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> 1) this will cause a performance hit no matter how it is done |
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What's this I've heard about Portage's performance not being a real issue? |
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(argument for not rewriting it in C/etc) |
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> 2) how will Portage know the difference between a package and another |
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> sub-category when it is walking the tree? It could do something like |
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> walking all the way to the end of the category/sub-category/sub-category |
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> tree until it finds .ebuild files and then backing up a level or 2 to |
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> determine the category, but again this would cause an enormous performance |
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> hit due to the additional required I/O. |
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Why not assume all [sub-]categories can also be meta-packages. Why emerge |
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kde-base/kde to get all of kde-base/* when you can just emerge kde-base |
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itself? |
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> 3) the many additional directories would cause an 'emerge sync' to take |
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> longer than it does now. |
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Then perhaps rsync isn't the proper program for updating the tree. Or maybe we |
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should finally implement fetch-on-demand... |
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> |
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> Basically, you'd be pissing everyone off with little benefit (except maybe |
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> to developer sanity). Keep in mind that I probably have absolutely no idea |
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> what I'm talking about and nothing I say should be accepted as fact without |
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> verifying it elsewhere. |
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