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On Tuesday 12 October 2004 23:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> It has come to my attention that, during recent weeks, a small number |
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> of users have been complaining recently about the size of the rsync |
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> tree. My august colleagues have proposed many ingenious solutions, but |
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> misfortunately they are all complicated and involve a lot of manual |
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> work. I believe the following small changes (which can mostly be |
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> automated) would prove of much larger benefit to the community for a |
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> vastly reduced cost. |
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I understand your concerns, but urge you to consider the option of |
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postprocessing ebuilds when they get transferred from CVS to the rsync |
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master. To be able to read an ebuild efficiently we need spaces, tabs, |
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AND COMMENTS. The thing needs to be maintainable. Sometimes comments are |
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not so much for users as for developers. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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