[gentoo-portage-dev] About boosting sync

[Tambet]

Has anyone ever noticed that portage tree contains a lot of md5 hashes,
which are not at all important for using it? I think that it does not make
reliability or functionality smaller any bit if those would all stay in sync
servers - anyway, syncing would go much faster and this tree smaller. What
about removing all those md5 hashes and downloading them only when they're
needed?

Tambet - technique evolves to art, art evolves to magic, magic evolves to
just doing.