On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 04:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
> >
> > > If rsync is in system, it probably should be removed. Portage could quite
> > > easilly just install it when the user tries to sync if need be.
> >
> > So we devs are going to start moaning because we have rsync installed ?
> I doubt anyone is going to whine because they have something they don't need 
> installed. The reason to whine is because it's installed *by default*. rsync 
> is really cool, but it doesn't really have any reason for being installed 
> before the user wants it.

So it is not used anymore to fetch the portage tree when a user
'emerge sync' ?


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa