Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

Richard Fish wrote:

> 
> Not if you use --deep on your updates.  Then dependancies are also
> considered for updates.  Some people here will tell you that --deep is
> troublesome, but I am not one of them, and it seems like what you want
> to do.

Then what is the purpose of:
"emerge --update world" w/o "--deep"?


> 
> There are 2 "problems" with --depclean:
> 
--snip
> IMO neither of the above 'problems' are particularly serious, or a
> good reason to add every dependancy to world.

Well, this means that one has to manually handle things as well as in
the way I deal with packages, right? ;-)


>> No, no! I'm saying just the opposite - the more packages you have
>> recorded in the world list, the slower scanning you get.
> 
> Yeah, well, I don't necessarily believe the reverse either! :-)
> 

Well, I have a Pentium 2 @ 400MHz with 128MB RAM. I use it as a router
and prefer not to even remember of its existence. :)
Let's say once a week I update it, but it has only the base system plus
iptables qmail and squid installed.

My desktop is an Athlnon XP 1700+ (working at 1.9GHz), 512MB RAM.

Compared to it, the router checks for updates about 2 times faster.
I can't be precise, but if you insist I could do a "time emerge -pvuDN
world" on both of them and send the results.

The router world file has 90 lines, the desktop world file has 751
lines. ;-)



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Best regards,
Daniel

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