On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:13:15 +0000
Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org> wrote:
> So, despite "looking" a *lot* of new categories with not so much stuff
> inside, will this slow down portage sync/metadata-regen/loopkup in
> some way?

Performance is best if the number of categories is equal to the number
of packages in each category. Purely from a performance perspective, a
few small categories doesn't hurt much; very large categories are a
much bigger problem.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh