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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 17:34:45
Message-Id: 1495388066.4186.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/ by William Hubbs
1 On nie, 2017-05-21 at 11:29 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:46:54PM +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote:
3 > > Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
4 > > > Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
5 > > >
6 > > > > Hardware or more deltas to
7 > > > > download by users? Just wondering.
8 > > >
9 > > > Both.
10 > > >
11 > > > - End users using git end up having to do massive metadata-updates.
12 > > > - Infra needs to have massive hits to metadata regeneration
13 > > > - End users using rsync have to fetch large deltas
14 > >
15 > > - Users using git repositories with pre-generated metadata have to
16 > > download/store much more history data
17 >
18 > If this is such a big problem, maybe we should be discussing how to
19 > redesign things to improve it?
20 >
21
22 Like, by not using eclasses and instead inlining all the stuff?
23
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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