[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] patches

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] patches

[Luke-Jr]

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On Sunday 19 October 2003 12:19 am, Bob Johnson wrote:
> Is there any reason we dont make ebuilds take more advantage of diffs
> for large packages.
>
> Instead of downloading a whole 40meg kernel src every release, why
> dont we patch up, goes for all other large packages also.
> (xfree,mozilla,etc,etc).
>
> This would make gentoo more accessible to modem users, save
> bandwidth and space on the mirrors..
>
> We could download the complete tar.bz2 every 3-4 version
> bumps.
>
> Just a thought.
> 				Bob
Is there any reason we can't detect a prior version downloaded and diff from 
it or if nothing is in distfiles, then download full copy?
Or would that be another feature to put in Portage 2.0? o.o
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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