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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Jason Pepas <cell@×××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> I would like to work on making the compression program used by portage a |
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> configurable option. |
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> I would like to start with binary packages, but eventually make all of |
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> portage more flexible (man, info, doc, etc). |
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Well, I'd love it if there was some way to specify other compression |
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programs to use instead of bzip2 and tar. pbzip2 produces huge speedups |
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on SMP machines, and some people like using star... |
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Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti |
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AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters |
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Gentoo Linux |
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