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Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> ... |
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> Do we really have many users on dialup that it would |
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> inconvenience? Surely the massive size of the distfiles you have to |
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> download makes the impact of rsyncing the portage tree negligible |
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> compared to actually fetching everything you want to install? |
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It is hardly a matter of bandwidth. A reduced to the minimum tree would |
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sync faster because the thousands of files checked (and pottentially |
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updated) by rsync are cutted in half. |
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Also, the other emerge operations will work faster because of that. |
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