Am 23.11.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 07:25:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> and you want portage to finish on this site of eternity when looking for >> dependency resolution? > I don't think having exposed requirements would explode the time needed > to calculate the dependency tree because this does not add paths to the > tree. It only validates or invalidates paths. > > And if time for dependency resolution would become a real problem, there > are ways to solve that. One could be making pre-calcultated caches of > parts of tree/paths. >
which works so well with different useflags. portage is already almost unbearable slow. The 'distributed model' would add so much complexity, we can forget USE. For what gains?
