* [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: proj/portage:master commit in: pym/portage/dbapi/
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@ 2011-11-26 11:38 99% ` Fabian Groffen
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From: Fabian Groffen @ 2011-11-26 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-portage-dev; +Cc: Nirbheek Chauhan
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On 26-11-2011 16:56:41 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 26-11-2011 01:54:35 +0000, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> >> commit: 1d4ac47c28706094230cb2c4e6ee1c1c71629aa0
> >> T> Org>
> >> AuthorDate: Sat Nov 26 01:52:49 2011 +0000
> >> Commit: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
> >> CommitDate: Sat Nov 26 01:52:49 2011 +0000
> >> URL: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=1d4ac47c
> >>
> >> dblink.mergeme(): Merge files in alphabetic order.
> >
> > What's the advantage of this? I don't really like to pay for sorting a
> > potentially huge list just for some eye-candy. (That's omitted by
> > default these days anyway...)
> > Any other opinions on this one?
> >
>
> If it should be sorted[1], it should really be sorted in the reverse
> order of distfile-download size. That would be extremely useful on
> systems with slow internet connections. Too many times have I sat
> waiting for libreoffice-bin to download while a webkit-gtk recompile
> waits in the queue.
>
> We already have the information during dependency resolution with
> --verbose, and it costs very little. Besides, sorting even 30,000
> entries (if you're merging every ebuild in portage) should not take
> more than a few secs.
A linux kernel has around that much of files, and I really wonder if
it's worth waiting a couple of seconds (probably more on sparc and arm
systems) just because then the files are in sorted order.
> 1. I'm obviously assuming that dep nodes that do not depend on each
> other would be sorted
I think this is per package.
I didn't watch closely enough the reply-to headers, the
gentoo-portage-dev list was my original target, which obviously makes
more sense for this context.
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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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