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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:22:30
Message-Id: 20090620192222.68f4b60a@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache by Patrick Lauer
1 On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:46:33 +0200
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3 > Generating the metadata cache isn't that expensive - it took about 45
4 > minutes to initially check out almost everything layman provided and
5 > then about an hour for the first run. Consecutive runs should be much
6 > faster and can be run in parallel per overlay (at least in theory).
7 > So unless I missed something really big really obvious it should be
8 > "small enough" to be run every hour or even faster.
9
10 Have you thought about the security implications of this? How much do
11 you trust the people running the overlays listed in layman?
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>