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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:42:14 +0100 kosmikus <kosmikus@g.o> wrote: |
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| cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | sed -r |
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| "s/[^0-9]*([0-9]+).*/\1/" |
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Miaow! Someone call the ASPCA. |
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| It could be argued that it is better for the ebuild to die rather than |
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| just warn since it is not nice to "emerge world", go for lunch and |
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| then come back later to find the build failed and X has been killed |
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| (and there'll be very little obvious evidence of what happened). If |
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| the user wants to build anyway perhaps a package USE flag or something |
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| could indicate to override the check. |
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Naah, I'd go for the warning with maybe an ebeep. If you really must |
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have a force thingie, it shouldn't be a USE flag, since USE flags are |
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for things which affect the resultant program. |
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I'd also be veeeeeeery wary about looking for a certain amount of RAM. |
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Chances are that the value in question will vary depending upon machine |
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and arch. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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