From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10892 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 11:15:56 -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 24727 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 11:15:56 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:17:09 -0400 From: Jason Wever To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030817071709.5911ce4f.weeve@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308170406.53791.klasikahl@gentoo.org> References: <1061113519.8012.9.camel@biproc> <200308170406.53791.klasikahl@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="n:(=.7mH/jI9CMB+" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature proposition (make.conf) X-Archives-Salt: 5f61622c-e300-4962-bc7a-8e45f9a835d7 X-Archives-Hash: a00b38c16d24b40531621b605a567560 --n:(=.7mH/jI9CMB+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 04:06:49 -0700 Zack Gilburd 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 --n:(=.7mH/jI9CMB+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P2Q2dKvgdVioq28RArhgAJ91tQkzbDjBs0OTdxrmj2c9FBWT5gCfRAUy OSmIwI1JV3KrAsQgF3/ibIE= =8eSO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n:(=.7mH/jI9CMB+--