From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9758 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 11:06:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7844 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 11:06:55 -0000 From: Zack Gilburd Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:06:49 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1061113519.8012.9.camel@biproc> In-Reply-To: <1061113519.8012.9.camel@biproc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_NH2P/nqIvs2UB2P"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308170406.53791.klasikahl@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cerebellum.tehunlose.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature proposition (make.conf) X-Archives-Salt: 3b975166-efed-4bd8-8b32-9a9555008dca X-Archives-Hash: 155c052d5a916dfc707615050d5995d7 --Boundary-02=_NH2P/nqIvs2UB2P Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 17 August 2003 02:45 am, Philippe Lafoucri=E8re wrote: > I don't think it needs a new GLEP : > > I'd like to see a new feature in the current list : mrproper. > This feature would allow portage to remove downloaded files in > /usr/portage/distfiles, and clean after emerging the /var/tmp/portage. > > This would help users to save some disk space on little configurations. > One of the problems that plagues Gentoo is that the distro's growth is lead= ing=20 to an insane amount of distfiles downloads (and even excessive downloads)=20 along with excessive rsync'ing. Automatic removal of distfiles would=20 substancially increase the amount of distfiles downloads due to the fact th= at=20 packages often have revisions made to them and revisions mean that the=20 software has to be recompiled -- thus the distfile would have to be=20 redownloaded of already removed. Until the general downloading (and rsyncing) etiqutte improves, I don't see= =20 how this could be The Right Thing(TM) to do. =2D-=20 Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C --Boundary-02=_NH2P/nqIvs2UB2P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/P2HNsM/B2K6aCgwRApOVAJ419A1s1AjW1knkrq1n/u7iURaCRQCeOem+ br5wki0zmty+u5LM5IwuFys= =GFVa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_NH2P/nqIvs2UB2P--