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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:06:49 -0700 |
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Zack Gilburd <klasikahl@g.o> wrote: |
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> One of the problems that plagues Gentoo is that the distro's growth is |
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> leading to an insane amount of distfiles downloads (and even excessive |
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> downloads) along with excessive rsync'ing. Automatic removal of |
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> distfiles would substancially increase the amount of distfiles downloads |
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> due to the fact that packages often have revisions made to them and |
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> revisions mean that the software has to be recompiled -- thus the |
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> distfile would have to be redownloaded of already removed. |
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My thought is rather than remove the distfiles for the version you are |
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building, remove the distfiles for versions that have just been |
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uninstalled by clean or update (granted they aren't being used by the new |
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version as well). This way you only have the distfiles for what's |
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currently on your system. |
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Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Team Lead |
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