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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:40:21
Message-Id: 200906202040.17751.patrick@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Saturday 20 June 2009 20:22:22 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:46:33 +0200
3 >
4 > Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Generating the metadata cache isn't that expensive - it took about 45
6 > > minutes to initially check out almost everything layman provided and
7 > > then about an hour for the first run. Consecutive runs should be much
8 > > faster and can be run in parallel per overlay (at least in theory).
9 > > So unless I missed something really big really obvious it should be
10 > > "small enough" to be run every hour or even faster.
11 >
12 > Have you thought about the security implications of this?
13 Yes.
14 > How much do you trust the people running the overlays listed in layman?
15 VirtualBox.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Overlays and Metadata Cache Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>