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What's unworkable about it? IMO, it may be difficult, but not unworkable. |
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It may be hard to modify portage now, but it should at least be thought about |
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for portage-ng or wherever things are going. Do we realistically think that |
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we should put installers for every single piece of software for gentoo on |
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every single users computer??? That road leads to insanity! What happens when |
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portage doubles in size - again? and again? and again? |
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Mark Dierolf |
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On Thursday 14 October 2004 7:49 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:43:11 -0700 Mark Dierolf <mark@×××.com> wrote: |
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> | I've been watching this discussion as far as tree size, and i'm |
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> | suprised nobody has brought the idea of on-demand downloading yet. |
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> Nobody has mentioned it because it has been discussed and dismissed as |
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> unworkable several times before. |
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