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On 11:07 Sat 30 Apr , Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes |
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> or spelling fixes in comments, for example. They already account for a |
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> considerable (too large?) percentage of the portage tree [1], and we |
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> shouldn't blow them up further by adding useless information. |
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> ... |
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Taking the latest portage snapshot from a mirror, the sum* of the apparent |
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sizes of all its files (forgetting directories, filesystems. overhead |
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etc.) is ~189Mb. The sum of ChangeLog files is ~66Mb, that is a ~35% |
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fraction. |
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Yes, I know this doesn't say much and I don't know the internals of |
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the rsync protocol (someone can say that communication lines are now better, |
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and cpu processing/disk space costs less than water/oil etc. so what |
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are we talking about?), however it is a fact, if anyone cares. If I |
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find a 1-year old portage snapshot I may calculate better statistics based |
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on fixed number of ChangeLogs that existed then and now to see how they |
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increased over the time. |
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*doing very quick calculations |
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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) |
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( Gentoo Lisp Project ) |
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