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 :-)
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Paul Winkler
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