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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rethinking multilib flags in Gentoo
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 10:31:58
Message-Id: 60210dcc7d3b240da2908f7bc92b449092a6e0b5.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rethinking multilib flags in Gentoo by Alexis Ballier
1 On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 12:19 +0200, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > On Wed, 08 May 2019 12:01:21 +0200
3 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 11:54 +0200, Alexis Ballier wrote:
6 > > > On Wed, 08 May 2019 11:41:41 +0200
7 > > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
8 > > >
9 > > > > > There's multilib that adds a lot of flags with a single eclass
10 > > > > > change, but I'd guess the number of packages and flags is
11 > > > > > constantly growing, so sooner or later you'll be hit by this
12 > > > > > again and no multilib killing will help you then.
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > I think it is more future proof to use the addition of multilib
15 > > > > > flags to fix pkgcheck rather than actively reducing the number
16 > > > > > of multilib flags to cope with its limitations.
17 > > > >
18 > > > > Then please do it, by all means. The reality is simple. If the
19 > > > > tool is broken, you either fix it or stop doing what you know
20 > > > > that breaks it. Being unable to do the former, and having no good
21 > > > > replacement, I'd go for the latter.
22 > > >
23 > > > Well, why is it slow ? IO ? CPU ? Did you collect profiling data ?
24 > >
25 > > CPU definitely. More detail than that, I don't and I don't have time
26 > > to investigate.
27 >
28 > So you don't have time to change 3 lines to add cProfile but do have
29 > time to send various emails and rework the entire multilib system ?
30 > weird.
31
32 Instead of being so smug, you could have provided helpful instructions
33 on how to do it. Or did it yourself.
34
35 Removing unused flags from multilib-build.eclass is certainly less work
36 than that.
37
38
39 --
40 Best regards,
41 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Rethinking multilib flags in Gentoo Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>