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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 08:41:16
Message-Id: a8522f61abc4fa2aef871d91a1f5bc236ddc0fa9.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting on 2022-02-13 by Anna Vyalkova
1 On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 09:23 +0500, Anna Vyalkova wrote:
2 > On 2022-02-09 04:15, Sam James wrote:
3 > > A compromise / workaround would be the Go maintainers working on
4 > > some tooling to make it easier to tar up the needed modules and
5 > > avoid huge SRC_URI.
6 >
7 > This. Sometimes EGO_SUM is so long it exceeds the maximum string length.
8 >
9 > *blames google for the whole go modules thing*
10 >
11
12 Then you should repackage the vendored libs into a single small tarball,
13 so it's much more efficient in every possible way. At this point, these
14 thousands-of-tiny-distfiles waste bandwidth, space, time and practically
15 cause parallel-capable emerge to hang.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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