[gobolinux-users] exclude localrecipes from freshen and friends?

kenneth marken k-marken at online.no
Fri May 23 22:47:42 NZST 2008


> >> >> > if possible, how about a tree sort of the freshen output? but i
> >> >> > guess it would make the current freshen even slower then it already
> >> >> > is thanks to it trying to at least do some level of sorting, right?
> >> >>
> >> >> It is already sorted.
> >> >
> >> > yep, but i cant seem to figure out what the basis for the sorting is.
> >> > as in, what source of data makes something be sorted towards the top
> >> > or bottom, or how are the different packages and recipes related.
> >>
> >> It's (in effect) topologically sorted. Every program comes after all
> >> of its dependencies, but positioning other than that is undefined.
> >> There are many possible topological sorts for a given graph, so you
> >> may get a drastically different order when you choose only part of it.
> >> --unordered is in arbitrary order, with no dependencies listed.
> >
> > ok, so the further towards the top of the list it is, the more likely it
> > is that its the dependencie of something further down? so in essence i
> > should start at the bottom of the list, working upwards to get a sense of
> > what i should think about updating?
>
> I really don't see what your use case is here. They're all updates.
> What are you trying to do?
>

heh, im starting to wonder that myself so i guess we should just drop it :)

looking forward to the next release.


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