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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual?
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:20:51
Message-Id: 200601182110.49604.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual? by James
1 On 18 January 2006 20:36, James wrote:
2 > Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an
3 > 'emerge sync' >>> Updating Portage cache: 50%
4 >
5 >
6 > Right before that, every time I sync I get this message:
7 > speedup is 8.20
8 >
9 >
10 > After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fast
11 > in seconds, (or at least one would think).....
12 >
13 > Is this 'cruel & unusual' of is this the devs enjoying
14 > some humor at our expense.....?
15 >
16 > PS (please don't take it seriously, as it's _HUMOR)
17 > awe, 5 minutes later, it's 51%.....but we have 'speedup'.
18
19 Actually, this is gone. Maybe you should try an "emerge --sync" and update
20 portage afterwards. ;-)
21
22 Uwe
23
24 --
25 Unix is sexy:
26 who | grep -i blonde | date
27 cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger
28 mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount
29 sleep
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Re: [gentoo-user] cruel & unusual? darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org>