From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RVdbJ-0004OC-7a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:25:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B27F21C08A; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BFE21C02B for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A93FD1B408F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ED5CBFF.9070603@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:23:59 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111120 Thunderbird/8.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles References: <201111291509.35502.vapier@gentoo.org> <4ED59500.6020608@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 13429c4e-6e6e-4918-aec2-8aa8070f53f7 X-Archives-Hash: 126e4ec233bb413c3e5fba7d1d20a932 On 11/29/2011 08:51 PM, Duncan wrote: > Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 as excerpted: > >> One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it >> allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs, since packages >> that's aren't in the system set don't trigger the code for bug 256616 >> [1] which limits parallelization as a safety precaution. >> >> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616 > > And a VERY nice benefit that is, too. =:^) > > Except, don't dependencies of system profile packages get the same safety > precaution applied, and at the level we're talking here, zlib, etc, > aren't such packages going to almost certainly be dependencies of @system > on a normal system, even if they're not in @system itself? > > If so, that's a relatively limited benefit in most cases. Well, maybe there's not much parallelization benefit for sys-libs/zlib. If it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, the system set and its dependencies wouldn't need this kind of special treatment. -- Thanks, Zac