On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:49:07 +0000 James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0000 > > James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice > >> if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much > >> space to check for. > >> > >> 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. > > > > A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup needs > > results in a failed build, or a build that won't start or any > > amount of other craziness. > > > > Read the maintainer's blog sometime (it's on the gentoo.org > > frontpage) to get a sense of what it takes to maintain that bitch > > of a project. Something as simple as figuring out what packages > > LibreOffice bundles and making the ebuild use the system one > > instead is a mammoth task. Don't forget that every little tweak is > > 2 hours of building just to test if it builds. Then one has to test > > if it works.... > > > > I'm not surprised the OOo and LibreOffice ebuilds take the easy > > route - figure out by enabling everything the maximum amount of > > free space OOo ould possibly need to build, then insist the build > > host has at least that much free. Heck, I'd do exactly the same. > > I read the blogs, and I'm well aware of the difficulties. I suppose > I'm pretty used to running my laptop pretty close to the wire > space-wise, and so an ebuild asking for 9GiB when it only requires > 5GiB would cause me to have to shuffle a lot of things around to no > good end. > > Really though, it would be replacing one (inaccurate, but > conservative) estimate with two such estimates. Where are you getting your information from? 9G is what the dev reckons is the maximum. This other figure of 4G - what is that? The amount needed by some arb combination on some arb user's machine? That's not a good enough criteria. It's not really the maximum plus one well-defined other. It's is the maximum plus every other possible combination (there is no defined minimal). If it's an issue for you, the solution is simple - keep a copy of the ebuild in your local overlay and edit the space requirements. Keep it up to date and in-sync with the ebuild in the main tree. It means you get to a little extra work, but is preferable to the dev doing a lot of extra work > > Still, nothing much to stress about. > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
