Re: [gentoo-dev] overly large files in portage

[Seemant Kulleen]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 22:10, Brian Jackson wrote:
> Just a brief list of files that are too large to be in portage (without good
> reason), and the people who put them there. The savings if these files were
> removed would be: 2652734bytes (2.53MB) which may not seem like much to those
> of us with cable/dsl/T1, but for those unfortunate enough to be stuck with
> dialup (poor livewire) it'll add up
>
> media-sound/xmms/files/xmms-1.2.8-russian-charset-csa20.patch
> sys-apps/dbus/files/dbus-0.11-cvs-update.patch
> seemant
> x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.1-patches/021_all_4.1.0-xtt.patch.bz2
> azarah
> x11-base/xfree/files/4.2.0/XFree86-4.2.0-Suse-Updates.patch.bz2
> azarah
> media-sound/xmms/files/xmms-1.2.8-russian-charset.patch
> vapier
> media-sound/xmms/files/xmms-russian-charset.patch
> robh


Hi Iggy,

Thanks for pointing this out.  The bloat was pretty incredible. I've
moved ALL the xmms patches into tarballs (currently there's a tarball
for 1.2.7 patches and a tarball for 1.2.8 patches making their way onto
our mirrors).  As a result, files/ has only the digests now.

dbus-0.11 I've removed from the tree entirely, and it took that cvs
patch with it.

As for Xfree, azarah, donnie, and I will discuss strategy on which
versions we're keeping in the tree (for now :P) and we'll get the
patches and such onto the mirrors.  Please give us some leeway, as there
are major changes ahead for xfree.

Thanks,

-- 
Seemant Kulleen
Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
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