-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I agree that it seams a bit unfeasable, allthough I suppose you wouldn't HAVE to take care of USE and ARCH - you could just state that you don't. "It's not a bug, it's a feature" ;) Well whatever you decide, if you change your mind again and continue I'd be happy to run your program :)
Steffen Zac Medico wrote: >>>> - Is it feasible with that much data? >>> >>>I have 432 packages installed, mostly only one version of them, and my / >>>has nearly one million files (/home, /proc, /dev, /sys, /mnt not >>>included of course). In view of 15'000 packages, multiple versions of >>>each, with multiple use flag combinations for every version I'm rather >>>pessimistic, except you have a few hundred dollars on hand and don't >>>know what to do with it ;) >>> >> >>yeah, after seeing what just my own machine produces (and that's only >>including packages where the installing ebuild was still available [I use the >>ebuild's md5 to differentiate between non-version-bumped ebuild changes]), I >>agree that there is a low likelihood of feasability. >>After reading your concerns and adding them to my own, I think I'll just >>archive this code and find something else to do with the name "Canoe" (I >>really like the joke with Portage :-). Oh well, It was only about a week's >>work and 1-2KLOC. Not too big of a loss (no sarcasm). It was fun anyway. > > > The way I see it, the many permutations or USE flags and archs are > overwhelming. OTOH, it would be quite feasible to build such a database for > a given arch, profile, and portage snapshot. I would focus on just the GRP > packages that come as part of the normal release cycle. There would be no > need to collect data from users. > > BTW, John, you might be interested in my portage patch that adds an > "installwatch" feature for pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90343 > > Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCt15YDPBy+6JbS7oRAsmIAJ4xBEQVrG6i19CgsGlWmZV0DYtgHwCfXjCM nWNTu8N6BnjW/+zFJYbPd4E= =t0b3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
