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Zack Gilburd wrote: |
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> One of the problems that plagues Gentoo is that the distro's growth is leading |
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> to an insane amount of distfiles downloads (and even excessive downloads) |
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> along with excessive rsync'ing. Automatic removal of distfiles would |
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> substancially increase the amount of distfiles downloads due to the fact that |
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> packages often have revisions made to them and revisions mean that the |
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> software has to be recompiled -- thus the distfile would have to be |
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> redownloaded of already removed. |
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> Until the general downloading (and rsyncing) etiqutte improves, I don't see |
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> how this could be The Right Thing(TM) to do. |
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I for one have the distfiles in /var/cache/ which is the Right Place, |
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imho |
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(and I believe the FHS thinks so too). Along with apache cache files, |
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ccache cache files and cached man pages, it amounts to quite some |
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data which can be removed when the space is needed. As a matted of |
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fact, I have a script which does just that. |
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How about adopting that poicy in gentoo? The cleaning side of it |
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(script, whatever) can be dressed to accept whatever policy the user |
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sees fit. |
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Just my 2c. |
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/Anders |
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