On Tuesday 24 August 2004 05:34 pm, Paul Winkler wrote: > 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. >
Are you sure you wanted to say that ;) > 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 :-) Hey, I loved it when I was using it, especially being able to have the package system know about CVS builds, but what killed it for me was; I did exactly that, then like a dumbass did it one last time when it finished, figuring "what the hell, there couldn't be any more major updates". Wrong - one the updates in the batch that took 2 days to build got rolled back, and since there's no binaries, I had to spend another day rolling it back. It wasn't the first time either. If you have a build host and a bunch of homogenous hosts, it's great. IMO with a single host, even on really fast hardware it's on the wrong side of the law of diminishing returns. Then again, I'll have to check that when I get some really fast hardware :P