Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-28 Thread alad via aur-general
On 05/04/2020 23:13, Paul Hentschel wrote: > On 4/3/20 6:55 PM, Loui Chang wrote: >> Neat idea but too arbitrary unless you can figure out a way to quantify or >> measure an 'intensity score' in a scientific manner. >> > Linux From Scratch uses a Standard Build Unit (SBU) to quantify build >

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-05 Thread Paul Hentschel
On 4/3/20 6:55 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > > Neat idea but too arbitrary unless you can figure out a way to quantify or > measure an 'intensity score' in a scientific manner. > Linux From Scratch uses a Standard Build Unit (SBU) to quantify build times. They chose to use the time it takes to build

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 03 Apr 2020 23:24 +0400, Nick Shvelidze wrote: > Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to > build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to > have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly > even a general

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-03 Thread Eli Schwartz via aur-general
On 4/3/20 3:24 PM, Nick Shvelidze wrote: > Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to > build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to > have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly > even a general thing that will

[aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-03 Thread Nick Shvelidze
Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly even a general thing that will describe approximately how intensive the package