[SM-Discuss] Going back to Gentoo

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Wed Oct 29 23:05:54 EDT 2008


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:38:10 -0500 (CDT)
Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> > I believe that count uses each ebuild file as a package (e.g.
> > vim-7.1, vim-7.2, vim-6.4 count as 3) as well as masked packages,
> > which would be our test and stable grimoires.
> 
> That doesn't appear to be the case:
> 
> # find /usr/portage -name "*.ebuild" | wc -l
> 25404

Hrm...a little under twice as many as they list as packages? I still
think they count .ebuild files, perhaps not masked ones? Or they count
masked packages, but not the individual .ebuilds. Or they really do
have that many dispirit packages. =)

> > Our updates take just about as long, with devel Sorcery (in the
> > works stuff ;)),
> 
> Ah, I was running stable sorcery.

Real Soon Now(TM). :)

-sandalle

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