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On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@g.o> wrote: |
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> Recently I found that there's a new research on Gentoo, specifically |
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> for Portage and package dependencies[1]. |
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Thanks for pointing this out! Anybody know anything about their first |
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reference, also from 2014? As far as I can tell it hasn't been |
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published yet but I figured I'd ask here before I go bugging the |
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authors. |
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Interesting that they picked Gentoo. It might just be from |
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familiarity, but a reason to use Gentoo is that the dependency info |
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for a package is separated from the actual distfiles/etc. Many other |
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package formats combine these, though perhaps this data is cached |
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somewhere in a format that could be used historically. If they had |
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multiple GB of ebuild files I'd hate to think about what that would |
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look like as .debs. |
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Rich |
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