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On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:55, tigger@g.o wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:56:43AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:46, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > > In the meantime however please note that it is possible to exclude |
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> > > certain categories from the rsync (like games). That would be able to |
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> > > safe some space/time. |
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> > |
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> > Why does everyone always say "like games" anyway? Games are essential, |
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> > man. KDE and Gnome are cruft... ;p |
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> > |
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> > Honestly, if you're worried about the portage tree, stop updating it so |
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> > much. There's really no need to be vigilant in portage updates. This |
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> > will become even more true in the future with the security only |
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> > updates. One other feature I would like to see is the ability to rsync |
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> > only certain parts of the tree, similar to how cvs works. I should be |
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> > able to be in my $PORTDIR/games-fps and do an "emerge dirsync" (or |
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> > whatever) and have it sync just that directory. I think it would save |
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> > the load on the servers if people are looking for specific updates to |
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> > specific packages. |
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> That sounds really scary to me. Won't this break stuff? Like things |
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> depending on ebuilds which you haven't synced as they are in a different |
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> category? |
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You're probably right. I just tend to work on a lot of ebuilds that |
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have very lax dependencies. Ignore that request everyone... ;P |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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