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On Saturday 18 September 2004 23:38, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> I was talking about the recently proposed, and still experimental afaik, |
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> 'configure cache' patch to portage, posted to this list on September 10th |
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> by Stuart Hebert: |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/confcache/ |
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> It caches the tests run by configure scripts. I haven't tried it yet and |
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> haven't seen any reports on how well it works for kde specifically. We |
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> -need- a solution to the configure script run times issue, as described in |
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> #11123. If that's not resolved, no amount of maintainer manpower can help, |
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> because the move to separate ebuilds would mean a large increase in |
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> emerging time for people who do want all of kde. If this configure cache |
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> works well and is accepted into portage, it'd be the best possible solution |
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> to the problem. |
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...Which is why we've been dismissive of this issue until just now: no such |
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config cache, or an laternative solution to the problem, was available. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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