From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbTyB-0000cg-AA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:25:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9M3NgiF001451; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:23:42 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9M3LeBJ006873 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:21:40 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2698473nfa for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:21:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Wo/40tagwC1IUjbUideXiJK27ve2RU+QW00wu4BCaYJ8QeQjUT2DjPcaw9L46y5Toq+5lVZgYY5tUhEnKDudnqm4JLIo6fmGpDjAFTJSqzSSMN9j1fZgz4UPhrD+e4owAIADJ0hfXDhiZ4XqLFnSp409Hgt1WekO9e7oGVuSBic= Received: by 10.78.134.12 with SMTP id h12mr4933669hud; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.128.3 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10610212021w2a25c23bm35f62c9cc320fa9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:21:39 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb" In-Reply-To: <4534EE5E.5090901@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10610161953k4db4f734ta0c7288ae9f4775e@mail.gmail.com> <4534EE5E.5090901@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 65368715-71cb-4730-bfd8-41939d1121d1 X-Archives-Hash: 49c5ea809d3d0b60dfc563b83d3ab974 > I have mine off. However, you should see which packages you have > installed that would take advantage of it before you turn it off globally. > > Grant wrote: > > Do you guys leave the berkdb USE flag on? It seems to be a default > > flag, but I've been using -berkdb in make.conf ever since I started > > using Gentoo. Is it basically a better way for lots of different > > packages to manage their databases? > > > > - Grant Does anyone else have a comment on this? Does turning on berkdb increase the performance of the applications that can utilize it, with the downside of another package on the system? How about gdbm? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list