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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:49:07 +0000 |
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James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0000 |
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> > James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice |
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> >> if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much |
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> >> space to check for. |
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> >> 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. |
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> > A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup needs |
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> > results in a failed build, or a build that won't start or any |
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> > amount of other craziness. |
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> > Read the maintainer's blog sometime (it's on the gentoo.org |
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> > frontpage) to get a sense of what it takes to maintain that bitch |
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> > of a project. Something as simple as figuring out what packages |
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> > LibreOffice bundles and making the ebuild use the system one |
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> > instead is a mammoth task. Don't forget that every little tweak is |
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> > 2 hours of building just to test if it builds. Then one has to test |
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> > if it works.... |
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> > I'm not surprised the OOo and LibreOffice ebuilds take the easy |
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> > route - figure out by enabling everything the maximum amount of |
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> > free space OOo ould possibly need to build, then insist the build |
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> > host has at least that much free. Heck, I'd do exactly the same. |
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> I read the blogs, and I'm well aware of the difficulties. I suppose |
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> I'm pretty used to running my laptop pretty close to the wire |
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> space-wise, and so an ebuild asking for 9GiB when it only requires |
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> 5GiB would cause me to have to shuffle a lot of things around to no |
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> good end. |
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> Really though, it would be replacing one (inaccurate, but |
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> conservative) estimate with two such estimates. |
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Where are you getting your information from? |
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9G is what the dev reckons is the maximum. This other figure of 4G - |
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what is that? The amount needed by some arb combination on some arb |
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user's machine? That's not a good enough criteria. |
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It's not really the maximum plus one well-defined other. It's is the |
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maximum plus every other possible combination (there is no defined |
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minimal). |
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If it's an issue for you, the solution is simple - keep a copy of the |
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ebuild in your local overlay and edit the space requirements. Keep it up |
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to date and in-sync with the ebuild in the main tree. It means you get |
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to a little extra work, but is preferable to the dev doing a lot of |
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extra work |
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> Still, nothing much to stress about. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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