Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature proposition (make.conf)

[Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:06:49 -0700
Zack Gilburd <klasikahl@gentoo.org> wrote:

> One of the problems that plagues Gentoo is that the distro's growth is
> leading to an insane amount of distfiles downloads (and even excessive
> downloads) along with excessive rsync'ing.  Automatic removal of
> distfiles would substancially increase the amount of distfiles downloads
> due to the fact that packages often have revisions made to them and
> revisions mean that the software has to be recompiled -- thus the
> distfile would have to be redownloaded of already removed.

My thought is rather than remove the distfiles for the version you are
building, remove the distfiles for versions that have just been
uninstalled by clean or update (granted they aren't being used by the new
version as well). This way you only have the distfiles for what's
currently on your system.

-- 
Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Team Lead

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