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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:34:24
Message-Id: 200305222134.20890.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions by Matthew Kennedy
1 On Thursday 22 May 2003 21:19, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
2 > Actually, in addition to my last post, I can see that maintaining a
3 > long description in portage will increase the size of your portage
4 > download considerably. I suppose that would need to be considered as
5 > well.
6
7 If the descriptions where in their own files (they should hardly change) it
8 should not be a big problem. We could even compress them.
9
10 Paul
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