[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] gentoo-x86 migration to repo-per-package

[Duncan]

Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:51:52 -0700 as excerpted:

> On 8/8/11 7:42 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>> Am Samstag 06 August 2011, 23:57:13 schrieb Fabio Erculiani:
>>> I really love the idea of being able to atomically push updates across
>>> multiple CPVs. This is also what KDE, GNOME, and many other teams are
>>> waiting for. Having multiple repos means no atomicity and at this
>>> point, I would rather prefer CVS (omg!).
>>
>> Exactly. This is why I would also vote for a single tree and single
>> modern vcs.
>
> +1 here. I'm curious what problems multiple repos would be solving, or
> is it just "it's cool and Fedora/other distros does it" ?

"Don't take the name of root in vain."?

Just as it's theoretically possible to run everything on a system as 
root, but arguably, nobody sane wants or encourages that, even for single-
human-user systems where the user is obviously capable and trusted enough 
to admin their own system...

... And just as it's possible to put the entire system on a single 
partition covering the entire disk...

... One reasonable argument here is that the multiple repos idea splits 
the damage potential and that it lends itself /naturally/ to security at 
a finer grain than "all or nothing", with said security not necessarily 
having anything to do with whether you trust the people making the 
commits, or not, just as multiple Unix user accounts doesn't necessarily 
have anything to do with whether you trust the human users or not.

There's certainly an appeal to that, but I too lean toward the "the 
hassle in this case isn't worth the trouble" argument, and thus favor a 
single all-tree repo.

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