Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft

[Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Athul Acharya wrote:

>> Purging old versions for a few seconds speed increase in portage [snip]
>
> Few seconds? Try few miliseconds, if anything, at all, ever.  The
> original email in this thread gave me the best laugh I've had in a
> while, until I realized it came from a dev; then I was very sad.

Please don't assume everyone is running your latest and greatest PC 
hardware, or processors that measure in the GHz, regardless of 
architecture.  We have officially supported architectures where a few 
seconds may be a generous statement of the delay (low end SPARC64 systems 
for instance).  The initialization delay of portage is very much felt 
here, either via emerge or other tools like equery.

Cheers,
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Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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