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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:15:41
Message-Id: 5472324E.3080406@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ? by Nicolas Sebrecht
1 Am 23.11.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht:
2 > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 07:25:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >
4 >> and you want portage to finish on this site of eternity when looking for
5 >> dependency resolution?
6 > I don't think having exposed requirements would explode the time needed
7 > to calculate the dependency tree because this does not add paths to the
8 > tree. It only validates or invalidates paths.
9 >
10 > And if time for dependency resolution would become a real problem, there
11 > are ways to solve that. One could be making pre-calcultated caches of
12 > parts of tree/paths.
13 >
14
15 which works so well with different useflags.
16
17 portage is already almost unbearable slow. The 'distributed model' would
18 add so much complexity, we can forget USE.
19
20 For what gains?

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