Michael Orlitzky wrote:

On 4/22/20 11:22 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:

On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:01 PM, Consus <consus@ftml.net> wrote:

Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portage.

patching P*****E is heretic, and forking it is
outright blasphemous.

For everyone complaining about how long emerge @world takes, and about
the incomprehensible error messages -- this fork was a step towards
fixing that. Portage does some slow, unpredictable, undocumented magic
when resolving dependencies that it never should have done in the first
place. Developers using portage then make commits that appear to work
with portage, but won't work in any other PMS-compliant package manager,
and often don't work in portage itself when given slightly different
command-line options.

Portage was forked because the current maintainers insist on leaving it
broken to "avoid the phone calls." There are still problems, but this
way people don't realize they're portage's fault.

Some may recall my thread about emerge only using one core when doing it's build list. As was discussed in that thread, it would be really difficult to build that list in pretty much any language because it just isn't set up to do that, the tree itself it seems. While I'd like emerge to be able to use more than one core, it may be faster but it might also fall more often to which would waste more time than using multiple cores would save. In other words, a lot of work with little or no benefit.

Didn't Firefox do this a couple years ago? Start basically from scratch and start over with new code? I seem to recall them doing that so it could use more than one core and other things. It lead to all the add-ons being redone as well. I recall a lot of fussing about that.

While it would be nice, could it even be done? Would it be easier to just start over with a new tree, new emerge/portage commands and all? Bigger question, who's the person with idiot stamped on their forehead that would be willing to do all that without knowing it would even work? ROFL

These Gentoo dead threads get interesting pretty fast.

Dale

:-) :-)