* Re: [gentoo-dev] [OT] pkgcore bikeshed (was Portage team)
@ 2014-01-13 9:38 99% ` "C. Bergström"
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From: "C. Bergström" @ 2014-01-13 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: Fabio Erculiani
On 01/13/14 04:31 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, "C. Bergström"
> <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> wrote:
>> On 01/13/14 03:43 PM, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
>> Where I work uses pkgcore[1], but not the areas which are generally
>> beneficial to the whole community. (We use it as part of a web application
>> to handle testsuites which have build dependencies.) We can blah blah about
>> performance of resolving package dependencies all day long,
>> [...]
> Not sure about what you mean with "blah blah". But given the amount of
> both disk caches (metadata, vdb cache) and memory caches (the
> in-memory aux_db cache that portage loads using pickle (it's a dict)
> takes like 70-100Mb of RAM on an average desktop system), Portage can
> still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a pkg with all
> its deps satisfied. Ironically, launching the same emerge command
> twice, will take more or less the same time.
> Yeah, this is probably bad design...
ack - I know the benefits (and downsides) of pkgcore compared to
portage, but I leave that up to others who would like to voice their
opinion. It would be great to get pkgcore up to feature parity with
portage, but I don't have the resources to help with that. (In the
future, possibly next month, I will try to put some bounties)
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