Lord Sauron schrieb:
On 7/7/06, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Lord Sauron wrote:
> My personal gripe is how slow emerge is on just plain old emerge-ish
> things. That we have to use things like eix to search is pathetic.
> This NEVER happened in Debian.
emerge/portage has lots of room for improvement. Lots of the code is quite
messy and it has been largely neglected because most people simply refuse to do
much work on such a mess. However, since I've joined the project, I've been
doing doing lots of work to clean up this code that most people won't touch.
It's getting better, slowly but surely.
Yes, it does. However, portage aside, it lacks something like
aptitude to really fill in the loose ends.
There are so many technical issues that remain to be solved in portage that
it's difficult to justify spending time on problems that have already been
solved in one way or another. There many tools in existence that already do
the search part pretty well. Lots of other things still need fixing...
Yeah. Portage works, however, I think it's really in need of a large
overhaul. If what you're saying is true, and it's really just a load
of scripts, then I really would HIGHLY suggest that you consider
beginning to make smaller helper applications in C and stuff to speed
things up.
What makes you think, that emerge in C would be faster? Would
it really be noticeably faster?
Scripts are great, but they aren't for whole applications.
I disagree. Scripts ("interpreted computing languages" would be
more to the point, though) are great, EVEN for whole applications.
Reason: Easier and faster development.
Alexander Skwar
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Im Endeffekt war alles cooler als letztes Jahr, obwohl
ich bis Donnerstag dachte, das es nicht geht.
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