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Peter Cech wrote: |
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> None of the files is needed prior to emerge -f. Most of them are never |
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> used, but have to be transfered on emerge sync and have to be on the |
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> harddrive. IMO this part of portage tree should be moved out and |
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> downloaded with sources on fetch step. |
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I completely agree! |
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Some of the machines I maintain (like my home machine and my parents') |
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only have access to 56k dialup and there's no local official rsync |
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mirror for South Africa. The source files are easy to get hold of and |
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can easily be transfered by CD/usb device, but keeping the tree in sync |
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is a much tougher task. |
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Please keep the tree lean! |
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Regards |
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Andrew |
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