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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:34:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305222134.20890.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fzn6n605.fsf@killr.ath.cx>

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 21:19, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> Actually, in addition to my last post, I can see that maintaining a
> long description in portage will increase the size of your portage
> download considerably.  I suppose that would need to be considered as
> well.

If the descriptions where in their own files (they should hardly change) it 
should not be a big problem. We could even compress them.

Paul

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 18:12 [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions Vadim
2003-05-22 18:23 ` oford
2003-05-22 18:31 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-05-22 19:01   ` John Robinson
2003-05-22 19:07     ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-05-22 20:28   ` Spundun Bhatt
2003-05-22 18:34 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-05-22 18:56   ` Dylan Carlson
2003-05-22 19:02     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-05-22 19:11       ` Dylan Carlson
2003-05-22 19:17         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-05-23  2:04       ` Frantz Dhin
2003-05-23 19:40       ` leon j. breedt
2003-05-22 20:59         ` Matt Tucker
2003-05-23 10:23           ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-05-22 19:17   ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-22 19:19   ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-22 19:34     ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
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2003-05-22 22:06 Vadim
2003-05-22 23:20 ` Ernst Herzberg
2003-05-23  2:55   ` John Nilsson

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