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

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:18:32PM +0200, Gordian Edenhofer wrote:
> > > > 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.

Then use a program like 'parallel' which has this sort of knob. I really
wonder what it is you're doing that requires running bacman with a large
number of packages with any regularity.

> 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