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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Piotr Szymaniak wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:24:56PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > Fwiw, I've also long despised the layout of the distfiles directory |
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> > being a flat hierarchy, it makes the directory a festering pit of |
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> > hellspawn over time on any filesystem that doesn't have dirindex. ( |
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> > I've seriously had "ls" take up to a minute to run in that directory, |
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> > and if I've ever made the mistake of trying to tab compete something |
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> > in there .... /usr/portage/distfiles/foo<tab> is my normal muscle |
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> > memory response, and then it sits there doing nothing for a minute and |
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> > it would have been faster to just finish typing it myself =_= ) |
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> > |
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> > Though I don't have any solution better than a "break it into 26 |
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> > subdirs by first letter" . |
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> |
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> Just use categories from repos? |
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No, please don't. |
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Right now, the Manifests in the tree reference 45790 distfiles. |
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Of that, 4262 are used by more than one package, and 197 are used by |
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more than one category. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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