On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:43, Mark Dierolf wrote:
> I don't see the point of having to run rsync every night.
Then don't. On some machines I only run it every month or so and they
still work.

>  Portage should auto-download ebuilds when it needs them.
So you only have to rsync the dependency info. You save maybe 50%
traffic, but need some ebuild servers that will be hit by millions of
small requests for single ebuilds. No thanks.

>  I don't think I use even 5% of the ebuilds in portage. It's a total waste of space. It's a total waste of 
> bandwidth. It makes me feel hurt inside, that my bandwidth is being 
> squandered.
So maybe a x86-only, a ppc-only, ... rsync repository would be more useful?
I'm sure that it's not much better, but it would reduce the number of
files.

> Though, half the fun of gentoo is watching pages after pages of confusing 
> compile/rsync/etc. data scroll by nightly.
You do know about obsessive-compulsive disorder, right? ;-)

> With all the bandwidth we would save, we could make a little gentoo anthem mp3 
> download and play while the user is emerging.  Something like "Ride of the 
> Valkyries" mixed with "C&C Music Factory".
How about a fractal-based rsync visualizer? ;-)

> Let's start the flame war :)
I thought those were only on tuesdays?

Patrick