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On 05/19/2014 06:24 PM, Pavlos Ratis wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically |
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> for Portage and package dependencies[1]. |
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So that's quite ... hmm, I don't know. |
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There's an interesting lesson to be found: If you want to do such |
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research, get in contact with the developers. I was quite amused that |
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they spent literally weeks fetching things from anoncvs.g.o instead of |
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being lazy, or using some weird hackarounds instead of reading the |
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metadata cache directly. |
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For me such things are obvious, for them it's magic - but apparently |
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they never bothered to ask. |
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The result seems to be that libraries only get used when they exist and |
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not before, and/or I'm too critical of conclusions. Might be nice to |
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make some more graphs showing how things evolve over time. |
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