On Tuesday 28 October 2003 2:44 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Is there a way to determine how long it takes 'emerge' to parse an ebuild
> and figure out what packages it is dependent on according to USE flags? I
> wrote a Perl program that does this and it takes 0.049 seconds to parse
> '/usr/portagemedia-video/mplayer/mplayer-1.0_pre2.ebuild' and tell me what
> the dependencies are with the current USE flags. I want to compare it to
> how fast Portage does this on my particular setup to get an acurate
> comparison.

How about 'time emerge -p <package>'?

As an aside, the strace output of running an emerge or an ebuild makes 
interesting reading.

Best regards,
Stu
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