Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to end-of-life tree-clean old profiles/updates/ files

[Brian Dolbec]

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 01:52 +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Brian Dolbec wrote:
> > > > remove entries in profiles/updates for tree-cleaned packages...
> > >
> > > What's the advantage of doing that?
> >
> > None
> ..
> > FYI... Currently there are updates files in profiles/updates/
> > dating back to 2004
>
> Do they take up significant storage space or transfer time, compared
> to the rest of the tree?
>
> If not, I can't think of a reason to remove them.
>
>
> //Peter


No, once they are downloaded, they don't change ever after the quarterly
rollover which starts a new updates file.  Nor do they take up
significant storage space.  They probably take up a higher percentage of
your fs's inodes than % diskspace.

But they do take time to process and verify every time emerge initiates
a fixpackages call after every sync.  That will save time more than it
will space.

Also, (taking it a bit to extremes ;) ) why would a new user with a 2
month old system and up-to-date tree want 8 year old update cruft
lingering about their filesystem...taking time to check they've been
processed? 
  Do you?

Let's just do an annual tree-cleaning and be done with them.
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>