| Summary: | Symlink protection makes uninstall of kde packages terribly slow | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Wiktor Garbacz <wiktor.garbacz> |
| Component: | Core | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 835380 | ||
I don't think there's any need to optimize this case, since it only occurs when you remove the kde packages, not when you upgrade. |
Uninstalling a bigger group of kde packages takes a really long time due to many symlink protection checks. Symlinks are of form /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/{app_name}/common -> /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/common which seems to be safe to remove and were found so on my system. There are 2 possible solutions: 1. exclude the symlinks from protection 2. check and remove them all at the end of emerge (each check took ~15s which is not tragic but I was depcleaning ~80 packages)