From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A31D1381FA for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 18:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADFD2E0830; Mon, 19 May 2014 18:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-f176.google.com (mail-ve0-f176.google.com [209.85.128.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22181E080A for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 18:06:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f176.google.com with SMTP id jz11so6820977veb.21 for ; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:06:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=pvGAwfpRFRxY4MoDPmFFGfZyiKX1eqZXZd+s9fn5tpM=; b=IFqqnwc2ykTlm3ieNXZkKm62iM4KnNCgYC3rHVK7yKNZXfKsxRgW5TeLY8luW1nB1O oef5ZXdpgyM7diMPHVqdAKddezuusSli1ldUxHZrdWw3zmyucPYOD7VPxmIgU0jwLgeL 8kSYgzlMoo5CfktEn1qhWCRwB5K4Fs0mvZN1SM6ga/iGZItasRiPqmMBTcxfGYdqqtBn bCwLhdohg9DxZA+Rpbo9+uHXM4M5uPfpZ3b8at1GKQO0Kd5x8JkvwRtOVsA15NGinotI vaYns4wYDbOOXXu2QtLrS5hemLC8hDF+QjnA2P5kceyTKHlwvTUKzTVTpU0fhNLfGiK/ UaFA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.103.74 with SMTP id fu10mr7787025vdb.7.1400522814199; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.30.227 with HTTP; Mon, 19 May 2014 11:06:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:06:54 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: AI9yCrnirmIGqtd7WV1Mb_DZawc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] New research: Gentoo Portage Package Dependencies From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4e901b50-aaf5-420a-8227-d57ec3c067a2 X-Archives-Hash: 171a51c94c1dce8ecb811d580d5b52aa On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis wrote: > Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically > for Portage and package dependencies[1]. Thanks for pointing this out! Anybody know anything about their first reference, also from 2014? As far as I can tell it hasn't been published yet but I figured I'd ask here before I go bugging the authors. Interesting that they picked Gentoo. It might just be from familiarity, but a reason to use Gentoo is that the dependency info for a package is separated from the actual distfiles/etc. Many other package formats combine these, though perhaps this data is cached somewhere in a format that could be used historically. If they had multiple GB of ebuild files I'd hate to think about what that would look like as .debs. Rich