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From: Eric Sammer <eric@××××××××××××.com>
To: Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory services (was Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:41:50
Message-Id: 3EFC65AC.8010402@ineoconcepts.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory services (was Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.) by Patrick Kursawe
1 Patrick Kursawe wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:28:12AM -0400, Eric Sammer wrote:
3 >
4 >>Say it quietly to
5 >>yourself - "no more 'emerge sync'... simple propagation... platform
6 >>agnostic standards..." - it sounds pretty good. ;)
7 >
8 >
9 > Even if said quietly together with "dialup network"?
10 > Or with "I only sync when there's a GLSA"?
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12 Sure. You could choose to replicate all of portage and keep a local copy
13 within your private network. It would work sort of like using fetchmail
14 to grab your email from an external mail server and transfering it to a
15 mail server inside your network and then disconnecting from the 'net.
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17 It could potentially work a number of ways...
18
19 > Just wondering
20
21 No problem... it's a good question.
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