On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:52:05PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:41:17PM -0400, John Check wrote: > > And how long does that take vs apt-get update && apt-get dist upgrade? > > Take all the milliseconds you shave with flags and deduct 'em from the build > > time and pig-dog slowness of a package management system that runs on an > > interpreter, > > Them's fightin' words :-P > I've never found the "pig-dog slowness" of portage to be significant > whatsoever. It's completely dwarfed by
... i meant to finish that line :-) It's completely dwarfed by compile time. The main inconvenience of gentoo that I've noticed is that I've had to train myself not to do upgrades right before I want to do some work :-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com