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On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 19:46 +0200, Tambet wrote: |
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> Has anyone ever noticed that portage tree contains a lot of md5 |
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> hashes, which are not at all important for using it? I think that it |
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> does not make reliability or functionality smaller any bit if those |
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> would all stay in sync servers - anyway, syncing would go much faster |
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> and this tree smaller. What about removing all those md5 hashes and |
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> downloading them only when they're needed? |
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To build a deptree portage needs to source the ebuild in the depend |
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phase, so portage needs to know that a file is safe to source before it |
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loads it. Being that FEATURES='strict' is enabled per default in all |
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profiles. It's rather vital that things remain the way they are now. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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