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Todd Berman wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2004-12-04 at 11:22 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>Troy Dack wrote: |
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>>>Another point against a monolithic zip containing all the ebuilds (or |
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>>>even per directory zips) is the performance hit that slow machines would |
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>>>take, not everybody runs gentoo on a 2GHz plus machine (eg: my little |
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>>>PII-400 in the corner) |
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>>Or my little P233 Thinkpad... |
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> And with the current setup of writing thousands of 1K files that little |
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> p233 thinkpad really flys i bet... |
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I'm not sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic, but yes, it does fly. It only takes |
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slightly longer to sync than my Athlon 1.3GHz desktop. The only part that takes forever is |
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updating the portage cache. That's why I just use a NFS shared portage tree from my |
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desktop machine now. |
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Andrew Gaffney |
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