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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overly large files in portage
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:24:04
Message-Id: 200312011424.02065.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] overly large files in portage by Brian Jackson
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4 On Monday 01 December 2003 06:10 am, Brian Jackson wrote:
5 > Just a brief list of files that are too large to be in portage (without
6 > good
7 reason), and the people who put them there. The savings if these
8 > files were removed would be: 2652734bytes (2.53MB) which may not seem like
9 > much to those of us with cable/dsl/T1, but for those unfortunate enough to
10 > be stuck with dialup (poor livewire) it'll add up
11 Hopefully the portage-ng people are working on the ability to have the portage
12 tree be a cache and fetch missing info from the net when it's needed... That
13 would solve problems like this in addition to making *true* embedded Gentoo
14 systems possible.
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