On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 14:22 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> In addition to "Manifest" files in portage tree there are 19000 
> "digest-${P}" files in the portage tree each of this uses 4k on ext{2,3} 
> filesystem and has to be scanned each time rsync is run on the tree.
> Is possible to avoid the use of theese files?

Not if you ever want to ensure that what you're downloading hasn't been
trojaned or otherwise tampered with.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux