On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > "Portage deficency"? You mean the fact that python scans some thousands of > files in the file based database, writing as it goes? > >> and that the real cache is centrally generated, right? > > Yup, from thousands of files in the file based database... > > Portage is a wonderful tool for package management, but the sheer size of > the beast begs for movig it to C and a proper database. I remember in the > early days of my gentoo experience that portage wasn't a bother. But as > ebuilds are added to portage and my choice of installed ebuilds grows... > portage has become quite a slug performance wise. I guess this is where > the IT types step in and say it scales poorly. > > Cheers all and Happy New Year to everyone. > > > Jerry
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108412 It _does_ suck, but looks like it will get better. I'm still going to keep portage on a separate partition. After all, I went through all the trouble! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
