From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1044 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 16:14:12 -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 2615 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 16:14:12 -0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/02/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Stewart Honsberger From: Anders Eriksson Cc: Zack Gilburd , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Message from Stewart Honsberger of "Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:44:17 EDT." <3F444E21.6060306@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:06:23 +0200 Sender: aeriksson@fastmail.fm Message-Id: <20030828160623.C82833FB2@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature proposition (make.conf) X-Archives-Salt: b8f2bf45-cc28-445a-a702-e2524aed57f0 X-Archives-Hash: ebb657cc4c30e7a34c0e1d8cef23c265 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. > > Until the general downloading (and rsyncing) etiqutte improves, I don't see > how this could be The Right Thing(TM) to do. I for one have the distfiles in /var/cache/ which is the Right Place, imho (and I believe the FHS thinks so too). Along with apache cache files, ccache cache files and cached man pages, it amounts to quite some data which can be removed when the space is needed. As a matted of fact, I have a script which does just that. How about adopting that poicy in gentoo? The cleaning side of it (script, whatever) can be dressed to accept whatever policy the user sees fit. Just my 2c. /Anders -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list