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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:02:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537A9B84.40406@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOgmxWwugJ3Gt+Rzdv7qv-Y37BJYmcPB42rce4+mu0KL_etwOA@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/19/2014 06:24 PM, Pavlos Ratis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically
> for Portage and package dependencies[1].
> 

[snip]

So that's quite ... hmm, I don't know.

There's an interesting lesson to be found: If you want to do such
research, get in contact with the developers. I was quite amused that
they spent literally weeks fetching things from anoncvs.g.o instead of
being lazy, or using some weird hackarounds instead of reading the
metadata cache directly.

For me such things are obvious, for them it's magic - but apparently
they never bothered to ask.

The result seems to be that libraries only get used when they exist and
not before, and/or I'm too critical of conclusions. Might be nice to
make some more graphs showing how things evolve over time.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 10:24 [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies Pavlos Ratis
2014-05-19 18:06 ` Rich Freeman
2014-05-20  1:08   ` Vikraman Choudhury
2014-05-20  0:02 ` Patrick Lauer [this message]

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