On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:53:10PM -0500, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 3/10/2022 14:44, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >>> > >>> I wouldn't block anyone from doing this, but it's not something I'm > >>> personally interested in pursuing. I see very little value here. > >> > >> First, you're trying to justify replacing repoman on an entirely subjective > >> opinion of "I think <foo> is superior" ... > > > > Well, if you've ever tried it you'll notice that <foo> for <foo> != repoman > > actually finishes the checks within a finite amount of time. Kind of, the > > most blatant argument for ditching repoman, actually. > > If this is a concern for some, has anyone looked into whether repoman can be > fixed to be more efficient? If so, how was the determination made that it > cannot be fixed and instead, needs to be replaced? It's been around for 20+ > years. Surely someone has gotten annoyed enough to look at any issues it > has and attempt to fix them?
It's slow enough that Gentoo CI [1] uses pkgcheck to be remotely useful. [1] https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/output.html > That said, I'm not terribly bothered by it. It is slow, don't get me wrong, > but it's not slow enough that my workflow is significantly impacted. It > catches most of the mistakes I've ever made before I make them so that I can > fix them. For me, that's job well done. > > -- > Joshua Kinard > Gentoo/MIPS > ku...@gentoo.org > rsa6144/5C63F4E3F5C6C943 2015-04-27 > 177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943 > > "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And > our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible > in-between." > > --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic >
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