On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:04:46PM +0200, Piotr Szymaniak wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:24:56PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > Fwiw, I've also long despised the layout of the distfiles directory > > being a flat hierarchy, it makes the directory a festering pit of > > hellspawn over time on any filesystem that doesn't have dirindex. ( > > I've seriously had "ls" take up to a minute to run in that directory, > > and if I've ever made the mistake of trying to tab compete something > > in there .... /usr/portage/distfiles/foo<tab> is my normal muscle > > memory response, and then it sits there doing nothing for a minute and > > it would have been faster to just finish typing it myself =_= ) > > > > Though I don't have any solution better than a "break it into 26 > > subdirs by first letter" . > > Just use categories from repos? No, please don't.
Right now, the Manifests in the tree reference 45790 distfiles. Of that, 4262 are used by more than one package, and 197 are used by more than one category. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
