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From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:11:09
Message-Id: 49A3C7B6.70300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by George Shapovalov
1 George Shapovalov wrote:
2 > (Ok this thread grew too long, so I gotta chime in :))
3 >
4 > We could start using extended attributes or mandate reiser4 for portage dir or
5 > some other special "in between" (the inside of file and its name) feature..
6
7 No.
8 1) I wouldn't use reiser4 so that would be the end of that.
9 2) how well do rsync and cvs support xattr's. How about linux support
10 verses bsd, or windows even.
11 3) It is just a bad solution
12
13 >
14 > Sorry for the noise and insane "implementation" suggestion :)..
15
16 At least you realise it :)