On Friday 29 April 2005 23:26, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Friday 29 Apr 2005 15:11, Jason Wever wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > The initialization time of portage is directly related to the number of > > > packages installed. Cutting out excess ebuilds from the tree won't > > > speed this up at all. Cutting out excess ebuilds won't have much effect > > > on the general running of emerge at all, actually, except for updating > > > the cache after syncing. > > > > Does that include the about >=10 second delay when emerge is first run on > > a box after a reboot before you get any visible output on the screen, or > > is that an entirely different problem? > > Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :)
Yep. That's the scanning of all installed packages for any provided virtuals. Regards, Jason Stubbs
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