On 20 November 2011 20:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:58:22 +0000 > James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice >> if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much >> space to check for. >> >> 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range. > > A slight mis-measurement on how much space a specific setup needs > results in a failed build, or a build that won't start or any amount of > other craziness. > > Read the maintainer's blog sometime (it's on the gentoo.org frontpage) > to get a sense of what it takes to maintain that bitch of a project. > Something as simple as figuring out what packages LibreOffice bundles > and making the ebuild use the system one instead is a mammoth task. > Don't forget that every little tweak is 2 hours of building just to > test if it builds. Then one has to test if it works.... > > I'm not surprised the OOo and LibreOffice ebuilds take the easy route - > figure out by enabling everything the maximum amount of free space OOo > ould possibly need to build, then insist the build host has at least > that much free. Heck, I'd do exactly the same.
I read the blogs, and I'm well aware of the difficulties. I suppose I'm pretty used to running my laptop pretty close to the wire space-wise, and so an ebuild asking for 9GiB when it only requires 5GiB would cause me to have to shuffle a lot of things around to no good end. Really though, it would be replacing one (inaccurate, but conservative) estimate with two such estimates. Still, nothing much to stress about.
