Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it's also a bit of a speed issue.  i often want to look at what flags get used > across the tree.  what's faster: loading + parsing 15000 xml files, or loading > 1 file ? shifting it to metadata/ as a cache of all the xml files is probably >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 April 2012 12:45:22 Paul Varner wrote: > On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > >> log from #gentoo-portage: zmedico: (random idea) would > >> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Paul Varner
On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: >> log from #gentoo-portage: zmedico: (random idea) would >> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or >> somewhere in /var, but out of the tree? > Why are we keeping it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > log from #gentoo-portage: > zmedico: (random idea) would it make sence to generate > local.use.desc in /var/cache, or somewhere in /var, but out of the > tree? Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:45 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:31 -0400 >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 10:11:44 Theo Chatzimichos wrote: >> > > Since .cvsignore is needed either way, I'm going t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:45 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:31 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 10:11:44 Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > > > Since .cvsignore is needed either way, I'm going to do it in three > > > days if there are no objections. But

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:31 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 10:11:44 Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > > Since .cvsignore is needed either way, I'm going to do it in three > > days if there are no objections. But I'd like some feedback for the > > move of the file in /var. Opinio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var

2012-04-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 24 April 2012 10:11:44 Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > Since .cvsignore is needed either way, I'm going to do it in three > days if there are no objections. But I'd like some feedback for the > move of the file in /var. Opinions? considering the server generates it and the end user never doe