From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C4B138A1F for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A94AE0AFE; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35F82E0ADD for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f181.google.com with SMTP id u56so4343738wes.26 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:45:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2q59Z+xgQ+xwkRYxWL36oRjH8UTcwnFdLvjBmzTrNCI=; b=XEGW8lr+W8nz8AjAtIg5ABQf99XvxOo3wOpDzKN4FgxKZxkEShddjd7rRNhLyek6PE aA4lkFDSn01VhO7YjkNto1H9FBEOKj+BSkEJvCHD0XA6vWOJ1eZrbt5E1nRczHb90RIP D44Av3HYWrN7rmTlP/2HCGAZ1bftturBOQpknVdjCK4Fn0KWNQvcfGs5Q5KUnZ55zV+C LAxTbc5/NoLu6RtO89CXqsf4/jRsTnXutOcpJfxo1CedkjZrj0tyMujixd8lVHEG8SPe i+SIAeKXfwymOl3vhF4JB7EZRHX3gEqrvaZZiJSvqUW0rGnLuMUWFQp7weIlG1hlwv83 DRUg== X-Received: by 10.194.87.104 with SMTP id w8mr29622wjz.90.1390765546999; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-244-57.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.244.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q5sm22467435wia.2.2014.01.26.11.45.45 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:45:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52E565E9.10600@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:45:45 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably References: <20140126162426.7a6d1f30@falcon.eroen.eu> <52E54920.5010207@gmail.com> <52E54E34.7080709@gentoo.org> <52E5622B.7040301@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <52E5622B.7040301@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 51ffc0e6-c65d-458f-99bc-01109cb9c22f X-Archives-Hash: e4df398c59105f6f6f42cac4fd97463a On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: >> So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are >> interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would >> be the most sane thing to do IMO). > > please do. Please please pretty please. > > > > > This topic came up on -dev two weeks ago, many people share your sentiment. But TheRealWorld intrudes, so the general consensus that was reached is - pkgcore must first be gotten to EAPI-5; this is a non-trivial amount of work - portage is never[1] going to go away [1] never is defined as "for the foreseeable future" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com