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On Mon, 2004-12-04 at 11:22 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Troy Dack wrote:
> > Another point against a monolithic zip containing all the ebuilds (or
> > even per directory zips) is the performance hit that slow machines would
> > take, not everybody runs gentoo on a 2GHz plus machine (eg: my little
> > PII-400 in the corner)
> 
> Or my little P233 Thinkpad...
> 

And with the current setup of writing thousands of 1K files that little
p233 thinkpad really flys i bet...

--Todd


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