On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:09:26AM +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > I was just wondering, while watching an emerge --sync, is it possible (or > advisable) to limit what portage syncs? For example, I have a server here > that doesn't use X, kde, gnome, java, and a number of other fairly large > areas of portage. It would be nice if I could speed up syncing by excluding > these categories from the process.
I do this and find it works like a charm. The actual sync time is not an issue for me since I have a decent connection but the 'updating cache' time went down by at least 75% for me (old computer). Which made 'emerge --sync' a lot less of a 'start this, go for lunch' command for me. I have had a tiny amount of issues with this since I started approx. 4 years ago, the biggest issue is that since you lobotomize the metadata tree you get some odd errors. But I find it worth it. Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
