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* Martin Rud Ehmsen <ehmsen@g.o> schrieb: |
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Hi, |
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> I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. |
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Well, it's not the overlay, but the clean subtree'ing what does |
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the trick. If you look at the whole dependency graph, this subtree |
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is an really independent part, just if it was an big-fat package. |
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No one outside the subtree (or at least from the main tree) will |
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ever depend on it. That's the primary condition. |
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<snip> |
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> I maintain a separate part (different from KDE) of the tree and I simply |
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> just avoid doing "cd kde-*" when I'm doing stuff in the tree (I simply |
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> just forget it is there) :-) |
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> In the rare case that my actions require that I actually look at kde |
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> stuff, then it would be a pain in the ass if I had to get it from |
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> somewhere else, and not have it right at hand. |
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In which cases do you have to look at KDE stuff ? |
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Would you say, your part is actually an subtree (upon my definition) ? |
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<snip> |
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> And an argument along the lines of "the tree is too large to download" |
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> does not apply either. If one cannot sync the tree over his/hers |
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> internet connection, then one can clearly not download gcc either :-) |
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The tree is really huge today. And it seems to grow each day. |
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Each sync requires a lot of resources (traffic is minimal w/ rsync, |
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but costing server and client load). And the tree requires a lot of |
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space on the system. For example, I've got an notebook w/ an small |
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HDD (which is partially consumed by an win32 laying around ...). |
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On this box I already ran into serious space trouble - syncing the |
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whole tree (while requiring just a few packages) and building larger |
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stuff, failed due out of space. Okay, I simply could cut off some |
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dirs (via rsync ignore option), but this implies quite some danger |
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that I miss something I need. With clean subtree'ing, those things |
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would be clear. |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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