From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LURmB-0007cP-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:21:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57C01E0280; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f10.google.com (mail-ew0-f10.google.com [209.85.219.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E039BE0280 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1980813ewy.10 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:21:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=JLh/WyYjx/uORXkrQPjRwmMyuvK7skODcrZ5B4O0fT8=; b=PnQldX0WJz7rUxeyI0GWIufAuUffu51K7DZhWQA+sIobKF6Ub8pB+Vnm92qWZQgoch ROCydyxllKt17GpzykLUPMAZLNfo7tbW4J9iqeV6/WCW+glefsM7vrdpQD1f/i5mORk4 s9V5cxzQwTisstUwzjjt0LhJViKmFgEzQnTKA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=e4oz7BLWoD45pOxGkQzDy+D6mhtm7Hqg9ILP6+IpV8nlou5J/uTd4LxmwgU9nOTn0j yBl0DuB1jngibHNhiMjRZdNrcKHOGrouOyALfm2F81K0FLwNL1Dmk/P73yaD3fO+5YNE Egn5ajjJiSACjwx0Usaow9jgyBMk4ABcZ/8sI= Received: by 10.67.97.1 with SMTP id z1mr2636219ugl.9.1233692407415; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q1sm312168uge.35.2009.02.03.12.20.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:20:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:20:05 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcement of The G Palmtop Environment ebuilds Message-ID: <20090203202005.5f2c3ab2@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <1233691996.22368.25.camel@localhost> References: <1233675279.6250.95.camel@localhost> <20090203192431.GA3819@comet> <20090203194715.GB3819@comet> <1233691996.22368.25.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/rNvLBLn4fL27_lxFxzldPR_"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 67682ea2-8e4a-428a-b0be-46b125b1774c X-Archives-Hash: e67c75afbc539b7af0c5ce0a013e6a29 --Sig_/rNvLBLn4fL27_lxFxzldPR_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:13:15 +0000 Angelo Arrifano 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/rNvLBLn4fL27_lxFxzldPR_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmIpvkACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHoOQCglj8ox+3EZGjNXnTEbHNcjjGk 8E0AoIQImjLEhhm/MRe4TqJyaLOQ9Y5i =AYFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/rNvLBLn4fL27_lxFxzldPR_--