Re: [gentoo-user] a question about updating process

[behrouz khosravi]

well chromium was just an example. I just think that when there is a
version upgrade, a patch should be enough.
I have read that portage is migrating to git, but I guess I got it wrong,
because I thought that the source codes will be maintained using git too.
However why not? why not use git for source maintenance too?

regards.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:38:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
>
> > I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download
> > about 200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files, not binary
> > executable. However I wanted to know that if a new version of chromium
> > comes out, an update will download another 200 Mb or just a diff files
> > to patch the altered files ? (I am a new user and I have not
> > experienced that situation!)
>
> It will download the source for the new version, which is generally a
> separate tarball, so another 200MB. That's how Gentoo works, with very
> few exceptions that source is downloaded and compiled.
>
> If you want to avoid the large download and lengthy compile time of
> chromium, use www-client/google-chrome instead, this is the pre-compiled
> binary from Google.
>
>
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