I noticed that qpkg -i went much faster when i was using a reiserfs partition as opposed to ext3.
--mat Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > What is the greatest pain in the @(*#& when dealing with Gentoo. In my > opinion is searching for stuff due to the incredible amount of time that > it takes to make a search. I relize that the largest overhead is the > first search. Unfortunately, I usually only search once and the result > set is good enough; therefore, every search is a first. > > Anyway, I came across a great utility called "esearch" Those gentoo > users that have never used it are going to be impress with the speed. > Just as fast or faster than "make search" in the FreeBSD ports system. > > bash# emerge esearch > > The only drawback is that the portage tree has to be indexed everytime > you do an "emerge sync". I do not do to many syncs unless absolutely > necessary. If I cared about being up to date, I would probably have cron > do both the index rebuild and emerge sync a week or so. > > I would probably add to cron an "emerge world" every Friday Morning > since I know that the chances of returning home after my regular stop to > happy hour after work are very slim. > > If you did not know this utility you are in for a wild ride. > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
