On 26/01/2014 21:28, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> So I dunno, it's annoying to have to wait, but it also prevents a lot of >> > wasted time by doing what software can do so well - detecting dependency >> > issues. >> > >> > >> > > I disagree with you here. You still get a lot of unresolved blockers and > other problems you have to deal with manually AND portage is unbearable > slow now.
I don't see that here. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe every time I my config deviate from as-shipped I hit the sweet spot. The only blockers I've gotten from portage for months now has been incompatible USE flags (totally not portage's fault). > It never was really fast - back in the day pkgcore run cycles around it, > too bad it has died a slow death. Hey, I never said portage was perfect or even fast :-) I only said that for a given input I get the output I expect in a timeframe that isn't intolerable. The process block in the middle is exactly that - a black box that may be contain a pig's breakfast > Now you get a really slow portage, making updates an horrendous > experience plus most of the same old breakage. Again, I think I'm just lucky. All my old slow machines and VMs run a very lean Gentoo. It's only this laptop with i7, 16G and a new shiny SSD that is loaded up with heaps of stuff. If portage is unbearably slow, then that hardware is hiding it from me. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
