From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDjJ-00052O-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:11:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CE8C21C42C; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA83F21C317 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf27 with SMTP id 27so8044386wwf.10 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:10:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TlTbz9XloGwwMNjf6HyYZ9r6GKhYdKxsSX5blxNwGr0=; b=Bf2yXtUFu4xfHIXXY6w7yZaktW8TbRs06a4LT743M3HXqDgOsyXaNuzXk00VyXgeaG nC02jarpIKtUDEueWm5OGk987/MyOVlMiP7PqjwwUWpIpGyO5SYCF1zcxEIPZHxTMer0 tgRUUFn4FgtAEBt4pL85eFywJjntt3UJSCai0= Received: by 10.227.205.21 with SMTP id fo21mr7093894wbb.12.1321819801980; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fq9sm5398435wbb.5.2011.11.20.12.09.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:10:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:09:47 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space Message-ID: <20111120220947.4297b198@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20111120110905.1c443c4a.v_2e@ukr.net> <20111120183213.0ab85329@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d83c276-a127-413a-b392-595edc294bb3 X-Archives-Hash: f5bca6d1574fde3251ccc1c6f4d0bf13 On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0000 James Broadhead wrote: > On 20 November 2011 18:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:33 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: > > > > > Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being > > > dependent on USE flag combinations. > > > > Also CFLAGS and architecture, to a lesser extent. > > > Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice > if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much > space to check for. > > 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. If the maintainer implemented that, he'd be promptly inundated with all manner of support question none of which he can answer accurately. A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup needs results in a failed build, or a build that won't start or any amount of other craziness. Read the maintainer's blog sometime (it's on the gentoo.org frontpage) to get a sense of what it takes to maintain that bitch of a project. Something as simple as figuring out what packages LibreOffice bundles and making the ebuild use the system one instead is a mammoth task. Don't forget that every little tweak is 2 hours of building just to test if it builds. Then one has to test if it works.... I'm not surprised the OOo and LibreOffice ebuilds take the easy route - figure out by enabling everything the maximum amount of free space OOo ould possibly need to build, then insist the build host has at least that much free. Heck, I'd do exactly the same. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com