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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:39:56
Message-Id: 498F6D60.7080500@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800
6 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
7 >>> Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to
8 >>> keep track of and store junk under version control.
9 >> I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I
10 >> said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule.
11 >
12 > If you start encouraging this approach, are you prepared to make
13 > Portage warn extremely noisily if a repository-provided (as opposed to
14 > user generated) cache entry is found to be stale?
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16 Sure. Otherwise, it's confusing for the user when dependency
17 calculations take longer than usual for no apparent reason.
18 - --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>