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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:43, Mark Dierolf wrote: |
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> I don't see the point of having to run rsync every night. |
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Then don't. On some machines I only run it every month or so and they |
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still work. |
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> Portage should auto-download ebuilds when it needs them. |
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So you only have to rsync the dependency info. You save maybe 50% |
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traffic, but need some ebuild servers that will be hit by millions of |
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small requests for single ebuilds. No thanks. |
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> I don't think I use even 5% of the ebuilds in portage. It's a total waste of space. It's a total waste of |
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> bandwidth. It makes me feel hurt inside, that my bandwidth is being |
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> squandered. |
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So maybe a x86-only, a ppc-only, ... rsync repository would be more useful? |
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I'm sure that it's not much better, but it would reduce the number of |
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files. |
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> Though, half the fun of gentoo is watching pages after pages of confusing |
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> compile/rsync/etc. data scroll by nightly. |
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You do know about obsessive-compulsive disorder, right? ;-) |
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> With all the bandwidth we would save, we could make a little gentoo anthem mp3 |
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> download and play while the user is emerging. Something like "Ride of the |
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> Valkyries" mixed with "C&C Music Factory". |
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How about a fractal-based rsync visualizer? ;-) |
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> Let's start the flame war :) |
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I thought those were only on tuesdays? |
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Patrick |
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