Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-09 Thread Klaus T. Aehlig
> - no 'make clean' and reusing the object files of the current version for > building the new, updated, > version. That should save significant compilation time. Does that work as > of today? I doubt that that will work in that form. In fact, I quite like that 'make clean' in ports throws aw

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-09 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:45:30PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: > > Both portmaster and portupgrade have 'package' mode, which uses > packages when available. If one can live with default optimization > (which is usually good anyways) and if most times the default options > would satisfy his/her need, or

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-08 Thread Stefan Schaeckeler
Hi there, > On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: > > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... > > your are talking about a serious problem. Absolutely. Billions are spend on Green Computing and even PhD theses are written on it.

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-08 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/07/11 23:26, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: >> Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just >> curious ... > > your are talking about a serious problem. >>

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
ake this posting too serious. I was just curious ... > > Just the other day, I bought a kill-a-watt. Among other things, I measured > the "cost of a source based package system", i.e. I was comparing the energy > cost of installing ports from source vs binary packages (

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... your are talking about a serious problem. > > Using source based ports is with almost 5 US cents 6.19 times (case 1 vs case > 2a) or 1.73 times (case

Re: The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Stefan Schaeckeler wrote: > Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... Thanks for the disclaimer. > . Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package system", > i.e. I was comp

The cost of a source based package system

2011-09-07 Thread Stefan Schaeckeler
Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ... Just the other day, I bought a kill-a-watt. Among other things, I measured the "cost of a source based package system", i.e. I was comparing the energy cost of installing ports from source vs binary packa