Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multiversion ebuilds
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 14:38:59
Message-Id: 28267496.CN8iVfeXth@gump
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] multiversion ebuilds by R0b0t1
1 Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2018, 16:24:00 CEST schrieb R0b0t1:
2 > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@×××××.de> wrote:
3 > > - The size of the tree reduces.
4 > >
5 >
6 > If this is a big concern you may be able to mount the portage tree
7 > under a compressed loopback filesystem. It may even be worth
8 > considering that as a recommended-by-handbook default as the benefit
9 > for compressing the ebuilds is likely huge anyway.
10 This seems reasonable. However, first duplicating code and then deduplicate it at file system level seems weird.
11
12 Gerion

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