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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:58:57
Message-Id: 20040412225850.2f3a5586@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers by Stuart Herbert
1 On 04/12/04 Stuart Herbert wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 12 April 2004 21:00, Marius Mauch wrote:
4 > > Assuming default setup:
5 > > - copy /usr/portage/metadata/cache to /var/cache/edb/dep
6 > > - check mtimes of actual ebuilds (including PORTDIR_OVERLAY) and
7 > > update/var/cache/edb/dep if they are newer than their cache entries
8 >
9 > Will Portage function without /var/cache/edb?
10
11 Yes, but it will be _very_ slow.
12
13 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for the portage maintainers Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>