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On 29/07/2014 12:52, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> well chromium was just an example. I just think that when there is a |
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> version upgrade, a patch should be enough. |
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> I have read that portage is migrating to git, but I guess I got it |
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> wrong, because I thought that the source codes will be maintained using |
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> git too. |
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> However why not? why not use git for source maintenance too? |
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The tree will OneDayRealSoonNow(TM)IPromise[1] be hosted in git. |
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Source tarballs? No. They belong to upstream and gentoo will do as |
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gentoo always has - follow upstream. |
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The downsides to running gentoo are |
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1. Lots of compiling |
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2. Lots of downloading |
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There is nothing we can do to reduce these downsides - that is the price |
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of the amazing flexibility from USE. |
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If you can't afford the downloads, you must switch to another distro, or |
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use a proxy. But it's not something Gentoo can solve |
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[1] Excuse the sarcasm, it's a gentoo in-joke how long this is taking |
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(or if it will ever be complete at all) |
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> regards. |
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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk |
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> <mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk>> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:38:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> > I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download |
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> > about 200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files, not binary |
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> > executable. However I wanted to know that if a new version of chromium |
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> > comes out, an update will download another 200 Mb or just a diff files |
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> > to patch the altered files ? (I am a new user and I have not |
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> > experienced that situation!) |
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> It will download the source for the new version, which is generally a |
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> separate tarball, so another 200MB. That's how Gentoo works, with very |
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> few exceptions that source is downloaded and compiled. |
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> If you want to avoid the large download and lengthy compile time of |
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> chromium, use www-client/google-chrome instead, this is the pre-compiled |
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> binary from Google. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> EMail - garbage at the speed of light. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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