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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] rfc: reducing the time of "Calculating dependencies" phase project.
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:19:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zjwkbzao.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMiTYSqhnDPAK_n_H8rPZj37c1cKv=dwc31KmGdWLECos53RuA@mail.gmail.com> (Zac Medico's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:59:51 -0700")

As someone whe often does edit ebuilds in overlays (very occasionally in
/usr/portage, too), having to run something to update the cache for said
overlay is OK.

But it *must* update just the cli-specified overlay(s), w/o having to go
through and update everything every time it is run.

For comparison, my primary workstation, with several overlays, takes
several minutes to do a dep.  Even with a hot cache.  Improving that to
something reasonable is the single most important change portage can get.

Also, if /var/db/pkg is to be cached, the existing /var/db/pkg layout
should remain as a backup, so that the cache of what is installed can
be restored easily should it ever get corrupted.  Portage can update
that cache after updating the /var/db/pkg/ tree.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6


  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-27  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-25 18:58 [gentoo-soc] rfc: reducing the time of "Calculating dependencies" phase project Александр Берсенев
2013-04-26  1:17 ` Zac Medico
2013-04-26 11:43   ` Александр Берсенев
2013-04-26 15:59     ` Zac Medico
2013-04-27  0:19       ` James Cloos [this message]
2013-04-27  5:29         ` Александр Берсенев
2013-04-27 19:23           ` Александр Берсенев

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