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On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> 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 amount of |
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> other craziness. |
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> Read the maintainer's blog sometime (it's on the gentoo.org frontpage) |
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> to get a sense of what it takes to maintain that bitch of a project. |
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> Something as simple as figuring out what packages LibreOffice bundles |
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> and making the ebuild use the system one instead is a mammoth task. |
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> Don't forget that every little tweak is 2 hours of building just to |
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> test if it builds. Then one has to test if it works.... |
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> I'm not surprised the OOo and LibreOffice ebuilds take the easy route - |
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> figure out by enabling everything the maximum amount of free space OOo |
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> ould possibly need to build, then insist the build host has at least |
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> 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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Still, nothing much to stress about. |
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