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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:10:17
Message-Id: 20170711021006.2146f24c@snowblower
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:21:42 -0400
2 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 10/07/17 04:47 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
4 > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:36:11 -0500
5 > > Ben Kohler <bkohler@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > >>
7 > >> If you want dependencies checked, use the correct option which
8 > >> checks them. This takes significantly longer than -C, as it's
9 > >> significantly more complex to check for.
10 > >>
11 > >> As far as I can tell, you are literally asking for -C to behave
12 > >> like -c, when you could just be using -c instead.
13 > >
14 > > No I simply want warnings like that exist for profiles and set
15 > > packages.
16 > >
17 > > Also more information when attempting to remove a package that is
18 > > not removed.
19 > >
20 >
21 > OK, well, as Ben said it's not feasible to make -C act like -c due to
22 > the performance hit involved and due to the purpose of the command
23 > itself.
24
25 Have you profiled this? It shouldn't be slow if implemented correctly.
26
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28 Ciaran McCreesh