On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:32:59PM -0400, daniel wrote: > On July 29, 2003 01:50 pm, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > Emerge sync was never really 'quick' as such. A lot of files (~50000) > > files get updated each time including cache during the 'hang' that you > > mention. Unless you have a very fast computer it will take some time. > > so what're the chances that portage might be switching to a more robust > database-driven setup? i'm just a webgeek, but i would think that doing an > emergesync and updating the portage cache would be considerably faster if > everything were running on mysql or something....
True, but then you force everyone who is running gentoo to have a full database as part of the base system, and I don't think that is a good idea. I don't understand the internals of portage very well at all, but there must be a better way of handling it than what we have now without using a full-blown database. William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
