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On 26/01/2014 21:28, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> So I dunno, it's annoying to have to wait, but it also prevents a lot of |
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>> > wasted time by doing what software can do so well - detecting dependency |
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> I disagree with you here. You still get a lot of unresolved blockers and |
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> other problems you have to deal with manually AND portage is unbearable |
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> slow now. |
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I don't see that here. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe every time I my config |
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deviate from as-shipped I hit the sweet spot. The only blockers I've |
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gotten from portage for months now has been incompatible USE flags |
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(totally not portage's fault). |
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> It never was really fast - back in the day pkgcore run cycles around it, |
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> too bad it has died a slow death. |
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Hey, I never said portage was perfect or even fast :-) |
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I only said that for a given input I get the output I expect in a |
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timeframe that isn't intolerable. The process block in the middle is |
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exactly that - a black box that may be contain a pig's breakfast |
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> Now you get a really slow portage, making updates an horrendous |
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> experience plus most of the same old breakage. |
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Again, I think I'm just lucky. All my old slow machines and VMs run a |
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very lean Gentoo. It's only this laptop with i7, 16G and a new shiny SSD |
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that is loaded up with heaps of stuff. If portage is unbearably slow, |
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then that hardware is hiding it from me. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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