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. :)

> 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.

> Yeah, this is probably bad design...

Too broad generalization with no fundamental argument about the design.

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