Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: Portage sync on demand

[Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>]

Hi Lucas,

Lucas Ramage <ramage.lucas94@gmail.com> writes:

>>> I've used nfs and sshfs for mounting a remote tree 
>> I would go this way when in short of storage.
>
> Are there any performance issues with this approach besides network
> speed/bandwidth.
>
> And let's say I'm not on WiFi. These are mobile devices after all.
>
> I'm thinking of a proxy server setup that could calculate dependencies
> on the fly and only download those specific ebuilds.
>
> Also, I could see GLEP 9 as being useful for updating over cellular
> networks.

Go for it.

>> Our IRC channel #gentoo-prefix freenode had a lot of discussions on
>> relocating Gentoo Prefix. The conclusion is that portage has support
>> for it built in, but outdated and need some extra love.
>
> That would be excellent. Python's virtualenv utility is pretty neat.
> It would be awesome if one could install portage inside of virtualenv,
> or to be able to `pip install --user portage`.
>
> Not sure how that would work technically.

I don't think venv is the correct way to handle system complexity.  And
I don't understand what can be achieved by installing portage inside.

virtualenv It is a dirtier hack than what we do with Prefix.

Benda