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A. CALM DOWN |
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B. One of the main reasons some devs like to push the limits of what can be |
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in files/ is because it takes up to 8 hours for things to get to mirrors |
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sometimes. |
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C. There are some things that are going to be in the portage tree that are |
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large that not everyone needs. That's just the way it is. No, we don't like |
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it. No, there isn't much we can do about it. |
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D. Most devs know it's a problem. Most devs are also already overworked as |
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is. |
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E. If you really want to do some good, write a patch for repoman to kick |
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people in the "jimmy jammy" when they try to commit big files. |
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F. CALM DOWN |
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On 11:49:34 pm 10/10/04 Allen Parker <infowolfe@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > <calm rant> |
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> > why is it that developers can't spend an extra moment or 2 |
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> > tar/bz2'ing their patchsets and uploading them to the mirrors |
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> > instead of including them where they are and making the portage |
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> > tree bulge from the seams? there are patchsets that are currently |
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> > in <pkgname>/files for packages that are only useful on a |
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> > graphical workstation... for people that run servers, this seems |
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> > like quite a bit of cruft. there are currently 100,712 files in |
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> > /usr/portage... does this seem a little ridiculous to anyone else? |
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> > </calm rant> |
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> > |
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> > <angry rant> |
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> > why don't we put more stuff in mirror://gentoo/ ?? ${FILESDIR} has |
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> > too much SHIT in it... i appreciate that patches, etc have been |
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> > placed there... but we REALLY need to find a better place. I don't |
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> > need my emerge sync's taking 45 minutes on average on a 5Mbit line |
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> > in france... *45 minutes* ...just PLEASE keep the SHIT out of the |
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> > portage tree. |
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> > |
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> > SHIT: (noun); |
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> > 1. useless stuff that has no business being in my portage tree. |
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> > 2. stuff that i'll never have use for... see #1 |
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> > 3. anything related to X11, kde, gnome, etc on a server. |
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> > </angry rant> |
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> > |
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> > that's my 2/100ths of a monetary unit. |
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