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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:01:34
Message-Id: 20050323190346.592551e3@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for an alternative portage tree sync method by Fabian Zeindl
1 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:15:25 +0100
2 Fabian Zeindl <fabian.zeindl@×××.at> wrote:
3
4 > There was a proposal some times ago about replacing the current
5 > portage tree with a database which contains packagenames, dependencies
6 > etc. but no ebuilds with installation instructions.
7 > The ebuild will be downloaded by emerge <package>.
8 >
9 > I think this would be a more interesting way of accelerating portage
10 > and reduce load from the rsync-mirrors...
11
12 Let's talk about that in a few years ...
13
14 Marius
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