On 01/14/2013 07:44 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 01/14/2013 07:09 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> OK i'm a little confused. Putting my earlier note aside, if the >> symlink will be auto-cleaned after no packages use it, what's the >> point/need for the original message from portage then?? Is it just QA >> for the ebuild maintainer? > > Unfortunately, there are a number of different possible scenarios. It > may serve as QA for the ebuild maintainer. It may be triggered by a > symlink that the sysadmin has manually created. In any case, there's a > performance penalty, since portage has to search for other packages that > installed files underneath the symlink. The performance penalty can be > avoided for a given symlink by adding it to UNINSTALL_IGNORE (which > makes the message useful, regardless of where the symlink originated from).
You can measure the performance penalty for the /var/run symlink by running this command: time portageq owners / /var/run -- Thanks, Zac
