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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Raphael Marichez <falco@g.o> schrieb: |
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>>IMHO this seems a good idea. The portage tree is growing every week, |
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>>every month, and it doesn't really suit for the very little systems |
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>>(embedded linux) nowadays. Furthermore, with the old 2.0-portage, |
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>>the syncing and caching had become really long. |
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>>So this project sounds sane. It's rather new, isn't it ? |
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> Why can't we just move the patches and other files besides the |
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> ebuilds somewhere else ? Why can't they be downloaded on-demand ? |
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The point isn't space (we have plenty). The point is package foo has no |
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maintainer and has problems. With no one to fix the issues, the package |
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should be removed (to give users a decent experience by avoiding broken |
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packages) and to increase security (by punting packages with security |
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problems but have no one to fix them). |
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It is all about manpower, I don't see a technical solution here. |
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