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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate |
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> (larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay. |
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> For example: KDE. |
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> Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all). |
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> Others are very interested in it. |
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> If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main |
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> tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from |
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> the mirrors. |
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I don't see how this is going to make anything easier to maintain. |
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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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The above of course only holds if the tree is structured in a good way, |
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which I think it is (to a large degree, one can always find special cases). |
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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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