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maillog: 08/11/2004-18:29:10(+0100): Carsten Lohrke types |
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> On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:53, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> > By what, 1% or less? (according to what I remember portage devs were saying |
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> > 90% of the time is spent in bash anyway). |
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> This was an assumption, based on the fact that you can expect all |
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> subdirectories of categories to be package directories right now. When you |
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> write a tool supporting _arbitrary_ depths you'd need to walk down the tree |
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> and check for e.g. Manifest files all the time. I'm not familiar with the |
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> Portage code, so someone else is welcome to give an exhausting answer. Also I |
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> put portage caching aside, just would like to see a version that _really_ |
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> works. |
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Portage has a list of all categories ($PORTDIR/profiles/categories), so |
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walking down the tree and looking here or there whether what you see is |
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a category or not, is not an issue. |
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> I general I don't think that arbitrary depths lower the complexity to find a |
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> specific package. Most likely it will raises the complexity of the Portage |
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> code quite a bit, though. |
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To me, it seems that it should be trivial. |
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