On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:58:13 +0100
Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:31:56 +0100
> Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Portage can still take *minutes* to calculate the merge queue of a
> > pkg with all its deps satisfied.
> 
> Half a minute if you disable backtracking which you don't need. :)

Which sadly also means that some updates get skipped silently. (Those
which would trigger rebuilds of other packages because of sub-slot
deps, had that case yesterday).

> > Ironically, launching the same emerge command twice, will take more
> > or less the same time.
> 
> Determinism results in more or less the same time, that's correct;
> proper benchmarks would show you a similar result.

I guess he means that the (according to the file sizes) extensive
caching doesn't seem to be of much use.


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