Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:13:45AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I was thinking along the lines of how many packages even binary distros > have to update.  I've installed binary based distros before and when > updating those, there can be hundreds, several hundred, packages to > upgrade.  Thing is, those

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:23 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:14 AM Dale wrote: > > > > Hund wrote: > > > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 wrote: > > >> 337 packages this month to be updated. It keeps getting more and > more. > > >> Pretty soon, gentoo will

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:14 AM Dale > wrote: > > > > Hund wrote: > > > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 > wrote: > > >> 337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and > more. > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 15:38:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: > 337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more.  > Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use. Is this because of the switch from Python 3.8 to 3.9 as the default? If so, there's a news item that covers this

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
On 6/1/21 5:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:14 AM Dale mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hund wrote: > > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: > >> 337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:14 AM Dale wrote: > > Hund wrote: > > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 wrote: > >> 337 packages this month to be updated. It keeps getting more and more. > >> Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use. > >> > >> > > One might then ask why you

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Dale
Hund wrote: > On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 wrote: >> 337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more.  >> Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use. >> >> > One might then ask why you have so many packages? And why you have a computer > that

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Hund
On June 1, 2021 3:38:30 PM GMT+02:00, n952162 wrote: >337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more.  >Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use. > > One might then ask why you have so many packages? And why you have a computer that consumes enough power

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 9:38 AM n952162 wrote: > > 337 packages this month to be updated. It keeps getting more and more. > Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use. Really it is a somewhat recent thing that Bitcoin overtook Gentoo in energy use... :) -- Rich

[gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread n952162
337 packages this month to be updated.  It keeps getting more and more.  Pretty soon, gentoo will overtake Bitcoin in energy use.