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 1RUIeG-00083K-67 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:50:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D7AD21C136; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B330521C03F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaen33 with SMTP id n33so7303302iae.40 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:49:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=0577i5u1Jh5zfkzNhHAKsvcFpQyjajZjxe61XHNVuzg=; b=GPdPbzANlrzYlgvVlmFbI+skcsjB6tp3JUpysjbpNoudSHjbesjHUu1bzO+ebY4yJY U/jBGo6VbmUypaUDCyYg8UvUnbQMxkM3l/s05t7O9gKPl8z3UaAi0LU9z8o/JPcTao2/ dhl+0JPiG0SSg9Pz+qdXMwbPsiWA52eN6GVEQ= Received: by 10.43.53.1 with SMTP id vo1mr17626665icb.2.1322315368131; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:49:28 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.42.227.198 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:49:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111120220947.4297b198@rohan.example.com> References: <20111120110905.1c443c4a.v_2e@ukr.net> <20111120183213.0ab85329@digimed.co.uk> <20111120220947.4297b198@rohan.example.com> From: James Broadhead Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:49:07 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: f135f0e3-cfbe-4e91-a1e2-3d420769ea03 X-Archives-Hash: 79ce599b3d95d1c5a4abef8ac345ed14 On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0000 > James Broadhead wrote: >> 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. > > 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. I read the blogs, and I'm well aware of the difficulties. I suppose I'm pretty used to running my laptop pretty close to the wire space-wise, and so an ebuild asking for 9GiB when it only requires 5GiB would cause me to have to shuffle a lot of things around to no good end. Really though, it would be replacing one (inaccurate, but conservative) estimate with two such estimates. Still, nothing much to stress about.