On 3/30/24 11:17 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote:
> Yes that's a very good point, that was something I was wondering in
> weighing up both sides, what the costs would be practically, as I don't
> know the realities of running Gentoo infrastructure. And maybe the costs
> is just too high of a price to pay.
> 
> I wonder if increased use of git repos rather than distributed tarballs
> could be part of a solution to those issues, although that could put quite
> a storage burden on every user. Unless they were all shallow git pulls and
> the user could optionally choose to tar up the git directory after clone
> with compression.  But yes granted then there is even more ebuild
> complexity.


Live ebuilds cannot have keywords, so using git repos is not a valid
option. There's not really much to discuss here.

Recompressing all distfiles in gentoo-specific ways is... definitely a
decision. It's a decision that Debian has made, mind you, so it's not
like Gentoo would be breaking new ground here, but frankly I don't
really regard that as fundamentally palatable.


-- 
Eli Schwartz