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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:39:07
Message-Id: 200504292339.01522.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft by Elfyn McBratney
1 On Friday 29 April 2005 23:26, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
2 > On Friday 29 Apr 2005 15:11, Jason Wever wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jason Stubbs wrote:
4 > > > The initialization time of portage is directly related to the number of
5 > > > packages installed. Cutting out excess ebuilds from the tree won't
6 > > > speed this up at all. Cutting out excess ebuilds won't have much effect
7 > > > on the general running of emerge at all, actually, except for updating
8 > > > the cache after syncing.
9 > >
10 > > Does that include the about >=10 second delay when emerge is first run on
11 > > a box after a reboot before you get any visible output on the screen, or
12 > > is that an entirely different problem?
13 >
14 > Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :)
15
16 Yep. That's the scanning of all installed packages for any provided virtuals.
17
18 Regards,
19 Jason Stubbs

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>