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maillog: 14/10/2004-15:49:17(+0100): Ciaran McCreesh types |
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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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I am not really a fan of these on-demand downloads, but I am just |
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brainstorming here: |
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Why not sync the metadata directory only? Then use the information in |
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there to check what packages are needed to emerge something. The |
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metadata is only 9MB and it has everything that's needed to calculate |
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the dependencies, right? It also contains the SRC_URI, so ebuild |
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downloads and source file downloads can go in parallel or something. |
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