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On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:19 am, Bob Johnson wrote: |
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> Is there any reason we dont make ebuilds take more advantage of diffs |
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> for large packages. |
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> Instead of downloading a whole 40meg kernel src every release, why |
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> dont we patch up, goes for all other large packages also. |
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> (xfree,mozilla,etc,etc). |
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> This would make gentoo more accessible to modem users, save |
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> bandwidth and space on the mirrors.. |
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> We could download the complete tar.bz2 every 3-4 version |
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> bumps. |
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> Just a thought. |
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> Bob |
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Is there any reason we can't detect a prior version downloaded and diff from |
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it or if nothing is in distfiles, then download full copy? |
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Or would that be another feature to put in Portage 2.0? o.o |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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