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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:38:58
Message-Id: 20120328213702.GA27807@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree by Piotr Szymaniak
1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Piotr Szymaniak wrote:
2 > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:24:56PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
3 > > Fwiw, I've also long despised the layout of the distfiles directory
4 > > being a flat hierarchy, it makes the directory a festering pit of
5 > > hellspawn over time on any filesystem that doesn't have dirindex. (
6 > > I've seriously had "ls" take up to a minute to run in that directory,
7 > > and if I've ever made the mistake of trying to tab compete something
8 > > in there .... /usr/portage/distfiles/foo<tab> is my normal muscle
9 > > memory response, and then it sits there doing nothing for a minute and
10 > > it would have been faster to just finish typing it myself =_= )
11 > >
12 > > Though I don't have any solution better than a "break it into 26
13 > > subdirs by first letter" .
14 >
15 > Just use categories from repos?
16 No, please don't.
17
18 Right now, the Manifests in the tree reference 45790 distfiles.
19 Of that, 4262 are used by more than one package, and 197 are used by
20 more than one category.
21
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23 Robin Hugh Johnson
24 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
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