[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] bacman: allow for parallel packaging

[Gordian Edenhofer]

> > > The second probably would not be accepted...
> > 
> > I urge you to reconsider. Parallelization increases the speed of
> > this
> 
> I don't think anyone is suggesting that packaging multiple things in
> parallel isn't useful. I already suggested that nothing needs to be
> implemented in bacman proper in order for you to parallelize the
> work.
> You can write your own "pbacman" as simply as:
> 
>   for arg; do bacman "$arg" & done; wait

There is a huge difference between flooding your system with ~1000 jobs
and tightly controlling the maximum number. Adjusting the precise
number of jobs enables you to organize your resources which itself is
desirable.
Even if there would be a perfect wrapper for bacman - which there is
none - it would still make sense to implement easily understandable
options into bacman for everyone to use simply to spare others the time
of coming up with one.

Best Regards,
Gordian Edenhofer
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