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On Monday, May 30, 2016 08:57:01 PM Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Gregory Woodbury wrote: |
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> > What the...? |
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> > Do you have every package there is installed? The worst updates I |
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> > have seen |
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> > are only 40-50 packages. 403 being 25% implies around 1600 - 1700 |
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> > packages. |
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> > Actually that seems about right, but why are you getting that many |
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> > updates? You |
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> > may have maladjusted USE flags or keywords to make portage think that many |
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> > need an update. I'm running with ~amd64 set and I check updates once |
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> > a day. |
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> Well, I'm running some stupid number theory code that uses 110% of my |
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> cpu and ram, |
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If it's stupid, why waste CPU and RAM on it? |
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Or is it only stupid because you don't understand it? Just like, in your |
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opinion, Linux is stupid because you don't understand it? |
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> and my web browsers are CPU hogs, so it's been 6wks/month |
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> since last update. |
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Where do you live that you have 6 weeks in a month? |
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> So right now I'm using the -30% of my cpu remaining |
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> to run e-builds. =P (205/250 atm...) |
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Guess I was right, number theory is too difficult. Percentages especially... |
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